Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout the sessions, Rudolph keeps repeating: "I'll try it if that's what you want, sir," or simply, "Yes sir." His silver pen makes notes of the Council's requests in a black book. If the Traffic Director has the men and money, he acts on the problems; otherwise, they remain until the next go-around drags them up again...
...Cambridge were planned at all, they were planned by a disciple of Jonathan Edwards bent on bequeathing a tangled hell to latter-day Cantabrigians. The streets are often narrow, and they careen into each other at odd angles, forming the squares which dot the map, and clog the traffic. Besides residents and students, floods of commuters from neighboring cities--such as Somerville and Watertown--use the streets on their way in and out of Boston. The numerous construction projects of the universities and private firms often make temporary changes in the traffic patterns necessary...
FACED with these probably insoluable problems, Rudolph must sometimes wonder why he came to Cambridge from Baltimore some six years ago. Since then, he's tinkered endlessly with various traffic patterns in a Canute-like struggle against the cars. One such experiment was his new Harvard Square traffic pattern which began last summer. Under pressure from the Council, Rudolph axed half of this new pattern, but kept the rest, mostly the one-way traffic on Mass. Ave. and Mt. Auburn...
...Traffic Director insists that even the abbreviated pattern has helped traffic flows around Harvard, but critics feel that cars, even if they move faster for awhile, still get caught in the same old bottleneck in Harvard Square. Complaining letters flow in the Cambridge Chronicle. Even poets take their crack at Rudolph. In April, a poem by a senior citizen and longtime Cantabrigian" appeared in the Chronicle. In this poem Paul Revere, on a second ride, got lost in the Traffic Director's latest pattern. Rudolph was moved to respond in kind, and an exchange of poems began in the paper...
...Harvard Square pattern stirred up more than letters and poems. For a while, it looked as though the Council might ask the City Manager to fire Rudolph. That, and holding up appropriations, are the only weapons which the Council has against the Traffic Director, who is actually under the sole control of the City Manager. But the crisis has apparently passed, and Rudolph still...