Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike Tono Bungay, rotary traffic is not intended to cure everything. As it is being administered by the Cambridge Engineers Office at present, it is aimed at alleviating one or two of the more important problems that confront Harvard Square rather than solving the entire constipated traffic mixup. Though the first two days of the experiment was a fiasco, the City Engineer's Office last week, in conjunction with the State Engineering Office, installed a substantial number of stoplights, cross-walks and other innovations. The end result has been a safer but more complicated Harvard Square...
...complaints of Cambridge cabbies are concerned, Davis is wont to turn a deaf car. For something like 40 years, he explains, the hackies have dominated the Square. With rotary traffic, the days of reckless U-turns are gone for the cab drivers; they must obey the new laws as much as any one else...
Only the removal of the kiosk or the construction of a Porter Square station to funnel off much of the current MTA traffic could further simplify Harvard Square. The chance of this happening in the near future is nil. Not only is the MTA broke, but Harvard Square merchants would be sure to protest the resulting drop in trade should Porter Square become the North Cambridge outlet...
Smith studied store traffic, found that 50% of cigarette customers were women, and announced the new policy. To catch the feminine eye, Smith will stock nylons, purses, costume jewelry and cosmetics. If the new-type store catches on, he hopes to make Schulte the "fastest-growing chain in America...
Crusader. In Fort Scott, Kans., Bus Driver Walter Anneberg fumed at a grade crossing while a freight train held up traffic for 25 minutes, stepped on the gas the minute it had passed, parked his bus on the tracks to stop an oncoming switch engine, and waved his fellow motorists through...