Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everytime someone piles up at one of these corners, a loud cry goes up for all sorts of exotic safety devices. Cambridge has already installed a traffic signal, but aside from providing sport for those who push the red-orange button, then floc, it has served only to clog traffic during rush hours. And despite the light, drivers still bear north when the road goes west, and they still under-estimate the angle of the turn into Plympton Street...
These may be prosaic answers to a dramatic problem, but little else is possible without making Memorial Drive traffic more of a dilemma than it is already. Although a few signs and a few posts will clutter up the Houses' classic view of the Charles, they are far better decorations than pieces of glass, fender, and smashed tree that will otherwise continue to festoon the vista every week...
...grim tourist traffic between the free world and the Communist world was in full swing...
...highways north of Chicago were jammed bumper-to-bumper one night last week. Said Deputy Sheriff George Bock: "It was just like Labor Day traffic." To Ray Radigan, an astonished restaurant owner in Kenosha, Wis., it was more like New Year's Eve. He had to hire extra help to cope with 484 diners, while hundreds of other customers perched on radiators or juggled drinks and sandwiches in the cocktail lounge...
During the summer a traffic light, to be operated by pedestrians, was installed at DeWolfe Street and Memorial Drive...