Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barnes installed 30,000 traffic-direction signs along Denver streets. The citizenry complained that it was going blind just reading things through dirty windshields...
...speed up pedestrian movement on downtown street corners, Barnes set traffic lights to stop all automobiles dead for an interval and instructed people on foot to hustle across intersections, catty-cornered if they wished. The phenomenon was jeeringly christened "Barnes's dance." Barnes was unabashed. To win his critics over, he spoke at community meetings answered questions on a Thursday-night radio program, cruised through the streets for hours every week to watch traffic at firsthand...
...Brain. He not only installed 350 new traffic signals but personally invented a $115,000 electronic "brain," which controls them in a new way. Today, Denver's traffic rolls over rubber pads in the streets. The impact of tires on the pads tells the brain how heavily traffic is flowing from minute to minute, and the brain automatically adjusts whole series of lights to fit the actual flow of cars...
...patient who is convalescing after a difficult medical treatment-have achieved wonderful results. Barnes's dance allows twelve automobiles to turn at downtown intersections on every green light where only one was able to creep through the screen of pedestrians before. Denver's evening traffic now clears up 20 minutes earlier than in 1947 although the city now has 44% more automobiles. Last year traffic deaths were down to 45, as compared with 64 in the year before Barnes took over...
This year Barnes got a really heady accolade-Baltimore, a city with one of the world's most gruesome cases of traffic congestion, asked him to spend a month diagnosing its troubles too. When he headed east last week, there was hardly a motorist in Denver who did not wish him well...