Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beginning July 30 local drivers will enter another period of crisis when another large section of Massachusetts Avenue becomes one-way. From Waterhouse St.--which skirts the northern side of the Cambridge Common--to Garden St. all the traffic on Mass. Ave. will move north. The south-bound traffic will be rerouted onto Waterhouse St. and Garden St. and then back onto Massachusetts Avenue...
...protests which are sure to accompany the next step in the reorganization of Cambridge traffic will come primarily from the residents of Waterhouse St. who, with horror, still remember a similar plan which the City tried ten years ago. That plan temporarily turned the Common into a large rotary by diverting southbound cars onto Waterhouse...
...result Waterhouse St. residents were subjected to what they regarded as an intolerable increase in traffic noise, and they felt cut off from the Common by the dense flow of cars. After three days the plan was scrapped...
Many local drivers expect--and hope--that the scheme introduced last week will meet the same fate as its predecessor ten years ago. But the City's traffic administration has changed radically since that time, and for that reason the new plan is not likely to be revoked. Ten years ago the City Council was directly responsible for all traffic regulations. But the Council relinquished that four years ago by handing over its authority to a traffic director who was to be appointed by the City Manager and responsible only to him. Robert Rudolph, then working in Baltimore's traffic...
...advise the traffic director and to protect the interests of local residents, the City Council also created a three-man traffic appeal board. Presently made up of two lawyers and an executive of the Cambridge Electric Light Company, this board is limited to an advisory role. But if it receives a complaint--signed by 50 or more local residents--against any new traffic regulation, the board is required to hear the views of the citizens and of the traffic direction, and in this situation they have the power to overrule the director...