Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lining Up. Other agencies are lining up for exemptions from the manpower-reduction proviso. The Federal Aviation Administration has won Senate permission to add several thousand more badly needed air-traffic controllers at the nation's airports. More offices, such as the Veterans Administration and the Social Security Administration, will also make the case that they cannot handle their expanding workload with a 1966-force level...
While Government and industry groped for ways to alleviate America's aerial arteriosclerosis, the traffic jam in the skies shifted from acute to chronic. The glut that has all but congealed the New York City metropolitan area's "Bird Cage"-Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark airports-now spreads confusion across the country and abroad, shredding connecting schedules in Los Angeles and squeezing service in Miami. Fortnight ago, "Black Friday" choked the Golden Triangle between New York City, Chicago and Washington with 2,079 delays. Black Friday now is every day. The situation cannot possibly get better before...
Towards an end, covering the traffic islands with Kentucky bluegrass would be worse than useless. Squares and plazas are for people to move through and pavement is therefore necessary. But as Elizabeth Kassler wrote in Modern Gardens and the Landscape, it can be "pavement of such color, texture and pattern that it serves as antidote to the asphalt rather than continuation." Therefore the traffic islands ought to be paved with one of the many available materials which are at once visually interesting, less heat retentive than macadam and as or more functional and durable. Alternations of smooth and rough concrete...
...feasible to transplant this territorial identity even to a traffic island. For example, a massive black cube sculpture rests on a tiny traffic island at the juncture of Fourth Avenue and Astor Place, where Manhattan's Bowery slum, hippieland, an industrial zone and a growing clump of theatres all converge. No one, from hippie to day laborer, fails to turn his head as he walks by, an some stop to stare. The work has become an image in my mind which is always positively associated with the area. This one sculpture gave the Astor Place neighborhood a coherent image which...
Finally, plantings serve to accent city monochromes, with greens and pinks. Although plants are harder to care for than macadam, the flower bed on the traffic island just North of the Common testifies that plants are feasible and refreshing mid-city and even mid-traffic. Limited areas of ground cover like pachysandra, evergreens like taxus, juniper, euonymus and holly, attractive, spare trees like birch, dogwood and Japanese cherry, and protable planters with shurbs and annuals make up a rich vocabulary a landscape architect could choose from to transform Brattle Square...