Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...variety of plans to solve the square's traffic problems were before the committee. Despite the preparations that bad been made for the hearing, however, the complexities of legislative procedure made it imposition to reach any definite conclusion. The committee decided to continue the dispute on February...
...might break Gatun dam and empty Gatun lake; a ship might be sunk in one of the locks where it could not be blown up without ruining the works. From a commercial standpoint he maintains that the Canal will become inadequate, estimating that it will have a traffic of 45,000,000 tons in 1934, and 135,000,000 tons in 1944, based on a normal traffic of 15,000,000 tons at present (last year, under unusual conditions, the traffic was 24,000,000 tons) ; the Canal's limitation at present is 126,000,000 tons because...
...limitless" capacity for traffic by means of a 1,000-ft. channel, 50 ft. deep at low tide, such that ships can sail directly through without waiting...
...Construction of the new strait on the site of the present canal without interrupting traffic. This he calculates could be done in about 20 years by setting 50 dredges to work widening and deepening the channel...
...badly enough, he will find numerous good and sufficient reasons why it ought to be ground. But unless all of the surface cars are going to be run under the surface--there must still be some space roped off for innocent passengers and others not directly interested in traffic dodging. Unless the tracks are moved there will be no more available space for driving, as long as automobiles are forced to keep on the right side of street-cars. And unless the sidewalks are widened considerably, there will be no room for sidewalk subway entrances; the congested passage in front...