Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest problems of the Square was then, as now, the proper control of traffic. However, in 1857, the trouble was due to the herds of cattle that were driven through daily on their way to the Brighton market. Several hundred steers, direct from the fields, would be driven into the Square each day by a few herdsmen. There they would promptly start milling around to the danger of all citizens nearby. For the better part of an hour, their custodians would yell and crack whips in an attempt to straighten out the cavalcade and herd it on to the Brighton...
...vote of the Corporation there has been established the Albert Russell Erskine Bureau for Street, Traffic Research, with quarters on the top floor of the Widener Memorial Library...
...Miller McClintock, who received his Ph. D from Harvard two years ago, has been appointed director of this bureau and will have immediate supervision of its work. He is the best known street traffic expert in the United tates, and is the author of a standard work on traffic problems...
...following regulations regarding traffic handling and tickets for the Harvard-William and Mary game in the Stadium Saturday, were made public last night. By agreement with the Police Department of the cities of Boston and Cambridge and of the Metropolitan District Commision, automobile traffic will be bandled as follows...
After 1.30 o'clock, Harvard Square from Quincy to Brattle Streets, Boylston Street, Cambridge Street, the Anderson Bridge and North Harvard Street, Brighton, as far as Western Avenue, will be closed to automobile traffic. The only automobile gates admitting to Soldiers Field will be Gates 12 and 13 on the Metropolitan Parkway at the southwest corner of the field. These may be reached from Boston by Commonwealth Avenue to Brighton, Avenue to Union Square, Allston, to North Beacon Street and down Market Street to the Speedway...