Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Slot Track. Obviously, solving aviation's crisis will take vast amounts of money for new airports and equipment, and far more aerial traffic cops than the 14,000 controllers the Federal Aviation Administration now has in 340 terminals and 27 centers across...
...Monroney says aviation needs 600 new airports right now, costing an immediate $3 billion, plus $8 billion more in the next decade. Every ten days, 13 new commercial jets take off to join the 2,521 already in the air; 17 new private aircraft go aloft each day. Airline traffic is up 17.4% so far this year...
...parking lots. These, plus railroad yards and even highways, would make ideal sites for future new towns within towns, of which projects such as San Francisco's Golden Gateway Center are only the earliest prototypes. Population will be dense, Owings admits, but city dwellers will get around more easily; traffic functions will be divided into layers, with pedestrians in the open air and rails and roads beneath them...
...building has become a built-in part of the city's confusion. Everywhere old towers crumble, excavations appear, followed by the quick climb of high steel skeletons. They rise straight from the busy city streets, the clusters of trucks, cement mixers and cranes hopelessly aggravating the snarl of traffic. Amid all this there arise new questions about the price of progress...
...interstate highway program, 90% financed by federal funds, has been the least controlled. And yet today, those wide concrete corridors play as vital a role in shaping cities as once was played by rivers. Undirected, highways smash and crash through whole neighborhoods, debouch a torrent of autos into already traffic-choked streets. Owings' team, which includes engineers, traffic and transit consultants as well as architects, intends to wield its power to direct Interstate 95's path through Baltimore as delicately as a surgeon's scalpel, avoiding historic areas, living organic communities and parks, while improving marginal areas. Only nine months...