Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Federal Aviation Deputy Administrator David D. Thomas laid the blame on congestion. Said he: "What has happened is that the airports, particularly in the New York area, are finally approaching saturation." But pilots were telling their passengers the straight story: the FAA's air traffic controllers were staging a deliberate slowdown...
...Hour Shifts. On July 3, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, which embraces half the U.S.'s. 14,500 controllers and hires Lawyer-Pilot F. Lee Bailey as general counsel, announced that it would start playing everything by the book-a set of rules that controllers often ignore. By spacing planes four miles apart instead of the usual three, the controllers managed to slow traffic by 30%. Because private planes use up only half a runway, controllers usually allow them to land simultaneously with a jet on intersecting runways, a practice forbidden by the FAA. The old rule went...
Somehow, Some Way. After 11 hrs. and 40 min., including a stop at Montreal, a stewardess announced that we had arrived over New York on time, and everyone buckled up for landing. Over the cockpit radio, however, Kennedy control was explaining that there were serious traffic delays (because of the tower workers' slowdown). Pilot Egorov also was told that his flight could be given priority for an almost immediate landing. He politely declined, radioing that "Aeroflot Zero Three will go in turn like the rest." In that case, said control, our plane's turn would come...
...recent readjustment of Cambridge's traffic jam patterns inspired the city to install two large and several small traffic islands in the middle of Brattle Square. These, surfaced first with mud puddles and then iced with macadam, are now dead space. They offer no visual interest and serve no social function, except to prevent cars from doing U-turns from one one-way street to another...
...space, especially valuable mid-city space, should be active, taking on shapes, not just lie dead beneath pedestrians. Cambridge must fight to be more than the sum of its traffic patterns, and more than just the city that surrounds Harvard, and for a start Brattle Square must be turned into the vital informal civic center and outdoor room that...