Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commercial heart of the British Empire, the physical City of London is a square mile of tangled alleyways originally built for handcarts and daily clogged with motorcar traffic. When the bombs fell, they at least opened spaces that had not seen the sun for centuries. After the war, Londoners began to hope that what Sir Christopher Wren was never able to do for the City after the Great Fire of 1666, a modern architect might do. But the new buildings that arose haphazardly were the same old "Bankers' Georgian," and each day 350,000 businessmen, clerks and stevedores still...
...ground pattern" of roads and walks, based on a system of "segregated traffic" in which pedestrians and shoppers will go about their business on a "podium" 20 ft. above all buses and cars...
Integration in the Air. Air traffic control is one of the most frequent causes of delays-and one that the passenger is least likely to understand. Flying at heights formerly used by only the military, jets on transcontinental runs are limited to three superskyways to keep them separated from other planes. The airlines welcome such restrictions in the interests of safety, but it costs them time and extra fuel...
Jets are often detoured around heavy-traffic areas before getting on course; many pilots have to make six changes of heading before getting their route-and then the altitude or route is often changed from the one originally cleared. American Airlines found that 30% of its flights in the first two months of operation were delayed more than ten minutes and 20% more than 20 minutes by such requirements. But the jets have had less trouble than anyone expected at the tricky job of integrating with prop-plane patterns. And even the routing problem may soon be solved: the Federal...
From the Interstate Commerce Commission last week came a 121-page prescription for restoring the health of the nation's railroads. Rejecting a prognosis by ICC Hearing Examiner Howard Hosmer that if the present rate of passenger-traffic decline continues, Pullman service will end by 1965 and coach service (except for commuters) by 1970, ICC hopefully insisted that railroad passenger service "is, and for the foreseeable future will be, an integral part of our national transportation system and essential for the nation's well-being and defense." But it conceded that if the railroads are to continue...