Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill was presented by Representative A. F. Blanchard '04 and proposed that the rotunda be made smaller to relieve the traffic congestion. If carried through Mr. Blanchard's bill would reduce the actual size of the structure, but the present features would be retained. The change would cost, approximately $20,000 half of which would be paid by the city while the State would pay the remaining half and be reimbursed later by rentals from the Boston Elevated Railway Company. Mayor Quoin announced yesterday that he strongly favored the proposed change...
...Boston Elevated Railway Company announced yesterday that motor busses will take the place of the street cars on Broadway beginning tomorrow. The busses will be operated from Harvard Square to Kendall square. This is part of the plan proposed by the Metropolitan Planning Division to make a new traffic artery from Boston through Cambridge to Porter square...
...dispute over the rotunda is an old one. A year ago the business men of the Square tried to get the legislature to pass a bill abolishing it as a menace to traffic. The problem was studied by Chief Engineer Henry W. Hayes, and the results of his investigation embodied in a bill introduced in the lower house by Representative Arthur F. Blanchard '04 of Cambridge. His bill, providing for a reduction in size of the present structure, was referred to the committee on street railways, where it has remained for over a year. The Boston Elevated Railway has steadily...
...into the Cambridge City Council to have the corner of Mt. Auburn and Boylston Streets, in front of the Pi Eta Club, rounded off. Aesthetic reasons also underly the petition, for it is felt that the rounded curve will add to the appearance of the city and minimize the traffic dangers of sharp corners...
Minister of Traffic - FRIEDRICH KROHN, Non-Partisan...