Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four years there has only been one such investigation, and in that case the appeal board sided with Rudolph. If the board conducts a hearing on Rudolph's new scheme it will probably uphold his decision. The only other method of defeating the new traffic plan would be to fire Rudolph. The City Manager--not the City Council--has the power to dismiss him, and he is unlikely...
...beholden to Cambridge residents or votes, he can ride out public criticism more easily than can a City Councillor. But in addition, Rudolph's scheme is intelligent, and will probably be effective in relieving the City's chronic congestion. Many of his recommendations are based on a study of traffic in the Harvard Square area which was commissioned by local commercial interests in 1962. And Rudolph has carefully avoided several of the mistakes which crippled the abortive plan ten years...
There have traditionally been four major traffic bottlenecks in the Harvard Square area. The rotary around the Common will eliminate the problem at Cambridge and Mass. Ave.; the Cambridge St. underpass will eliminate the intersection of Kirkland and Cambridge, thus ending that problem; and Rudolph's new one-way streets have largely cleaned up Brattle and Harvard Squares. Once the MBTA Kiosk is removed from Harvard Square the situation will be better still...
Although it is too soon to say flatly that the new plan will end all of Cambridge's traffic difficulties, it is clear that there has been an improvement. As Cambridge drivers become more familiar with the new pattern, the advantages of Rudolph's scheme will probably become even more apparent...
...AVIATION REVOLUTION (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Chet Huntley examines six pressing problems of commercial aviation: aircraft safety, crew fatigue, noise abatement, air traffic control, terminal congestion, and the jumbo and supersonic jets that will soon make their appearance. Repeat...