Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last--is a taxi. The swarms of these bright-colored public machines have well-nigh squeezed all private cars from the down-town sections. But the enterprise of New York taxi magnates is not confined to the narrow limits of Manhattan. One of them proposes to speed up London traffic with a shipment of five hundred yellow cabs, and the London press has had no end of fun discussing the impending "yellow peril...
Present Structure Obstructs Traffic...
...disadvantages of the present structure are obvious to anyone who has driven an automobile through the Square. Traffic moving toward the Square on Boylston, Brattle, and upper Massachusetts Avenue must all pass through the narrow strip of street between the subway station and the south sidewalk of Massachusetts where it intersects with Boylston. The congestion is further increased by the street cars, going both east and west, which stop near the subway entrance and often completely block the eastbound motor traffic which is fed into the Square by these three important highways...
...that the present Harvard Square surface station of the Cambridge subway be entirely removed, and new entrances and exits opened in the sidewalks. I have been forced to the conclusion that such a plan is absolutely not feasible. Even if this were feasible, it would mean seriously curtailing the traffic facilities of the subway itself, great inconvenience to the car riders--the escalator would be eliminated--and it would cost more than...
...even under slightly higher wage and material costs it is apparent that the " building boom " is going to continue well into 1924 and probably even longer. This will in turn serve as a back log for the iron and steel, lumber, cement and brick industries, and furnish much traffic for the railways...