Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mammoth elevated highways, which will alleviate traffic problems in cities, were visualized yesterday in a speech by Hawley S. Simpson, of New York, noted traffic research engineer, at the Harvard Bureau for Street Traffic Research. High cost would prevent them from becoming immediately practical, he said...
Speaking of ways in which "facility of communication" might be effected, Hawley said that conditions in city street traffic might be improved by "the construction of new surface streets, the widening of existing thoroughfares or the construction of elevated highways...
...cost would make construction of such highways impractical, and regular surface roads would be more convenient for short distances. The proposed highways would not "generate a sufficient volume of passenger traffic" to make the scheme pay interest by means of tolls...
...novel-writing. Concerned with life in a small New Hampshire community, Our Town is performed with nothing on the stage but a few tables, chairs and stepladders to indicate the town's geography. Partly imitating Chinese methods, Playwright Wilder has veteran Actor Frank Craven serve as property man, traffic cop, living newspaper and cracker-barrel philosopher. The whole effect gives ten times as much "theatre" as conventional scenery could give...
...river, ground into the bridge's unprotected piers set near water level. After 30 hours it simply pushed the base of the big 840-ft. arch at the U. S. end from its pier and the bridge fell. Useful chiefly for sightseeing, the collapse caused only a minor traffic problem between Niagara Falls, N. Y. and Niagara Falls, Ont. Three separate plans for new bridges were under way within a few hours of the crash...