Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were reduced, Crane argues, more cars and trucks would use it, reducing the usefulness of an Inner Belt. The crucial question is: how much is the Inner Belt a compelling necessity, and how much is it a mere convenience? No doubt if a new eight-lane highway is constructed, traffic will move faster, but is the added speed and efficiency great enough to warrant the destruction the Inner Belt will inevitably cause...
None of the forecasters seem to have any good solution for the traffic problem, though they count on automated, and possibly underground, highways. McLuhan and others predict that both the wheel and the highway will be obsolete, giving way to hovercraft that ride on air. Planes carrying 1,000 passengers and flying just under the speed of sound will of course be old hat. The new thing will be transport by ballistic rocket, capable of reaching any place on earth in 40 minutes. In Rand's Delphi study, 82 scientists agreed that a permanent lunar base will have been...
Goodman urged M.I.T. to use "the world renowned technical resources of highway design, traffic engineering and city planning. . . to design a route which will the least detrimental effect on the groups concerned...
...route of the Cambridge segment of the highway will probably be announced sometime next month by the State Department of Public Works. The City has until March 1 to recommend any alternative to the Brookline-Elm St. plan. Last month traffic consultants hired by the city an alignment along ralroad tracks in East Cambridge would be a feasible alternative. However, this was one of the routes opposed by M.I.T...
Goodman chastised the institute for its position. "We believe that an institution which has helped devise methods of sending men from one planet to another . . . can surely find a way to send traffic two miles from the Charles River to Somerville without the great personal hardships which will attend the presently-favored Brookline. Elm St. route...