Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yesterday afternoon, when the Yard was beginning to recover from the violent interruptions of the morning that had broken its peace, a very small urchin stuck his face around the huge corner of the Widener Library steps. Cars were splashing away in the streets, but inside the Yard traffic consisted only of a few preoccupied pedestrians. The boy surveyed the situation for several minutes, then walked in an absolutely straight line toward a pile of snow in front of the Library. As he bent over to break the crust of ice, he didn't look much higher than the first...
...twisted between their farms and homes. In 1807 New York City planners laid out a grid of narrow crosstown and wider up & downtown streets from 14th to 155th. The crosstown streets were placed at close intervals because it was thought that much of the town's up & downtown traffic would be borne by the Hudson River on the west, the East River on the east. The grid street plan worked very well for a century. Old photographs of Manhattan's thoroughfares up to 1900 are so placid they give the present-day spectator the impression they were taken...
Before 1929 some steps had been taken to solve Manhattan's intolerable traffic problem, immensely snarled by half-a-million daily commuters and the influx from twelve highways, led by great U. S. national No. 1. But not until the Depression loosed the public purse strings for work-making public works was there real accomplishment. Open for business 24 hours a day last month were five and one-half more miles-from 72nd Street to the George Washington Bridge-of the peripheral express highway which will someday ring Manhattan, vastly relieve the pressure of internal and through motor traffic...
...used by 13,000,000 vehicles (at 50?& up)-the Lincoln Tunnel was started in 1934 and has cost about $43,000,000 to date. Unlike the two-tube Holland Tunnel, the Lincoln Tunnel has completed so far only one 21-ft. 6-in. tube, now carrying two-way traffic. The other will be finished in 1941, when each tube will carry one-way traffic. The completed structure lies under 20 feet of silt, 75 feet below the Hudson's surface. It is just over 1½ miles long, ceilinged in glass tile, employed 1,300 WPA workers...
...Lincoln Tunnel has another usefulness. Until last week, through traffic on U. S. No. 1 had the choice of using tedious ferries, the George Washington Bridge or the Holland Tunnel. The Holland Tunnel route is not so speedy as the bridge route. It will now be even quicker to use the East Side express highway & the Lincoln Tunnel than to use the bridge & U. S. No. 1 on the Jersey side. This may take some revenue away from the Holland Tunnel and the bridge, only completed in 1931. but the Port of New York Authority runs them all. is competing...