Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...street was closed off to all traffic with the exception of emergency vehicles. The pipes that run under the street likely need to be replaced, said Cambridge Interim City Engineer Owen O'Riordan...
Since the March 14 launch of the site, theSpark.com has generated more than 50,000 registered users and traffic has reached up to 100,000 hits in one day, according to Yagan...
...flung malls and tract houses. Then there are local zoning rules that require large building lots, ensuring more sprawl. Many localities fiercely resist denser housing because it brings in more people but less property-tax revenue. Zoning rules commonly forbid any mix of homes and shops, which worsens traffic by guaranteeing that you burn a quart of gas to find a quart of milk. Even more important, localities routinely agree to extend roads, sewer lines and other utilities to new suburban developments built far from downtown, while existing schools and housing stock are left to decay. "Impact fees" on developers...
...Manhattan. By chance, it once gave me a strong intimation of mortality. In 1973 portions of the highway collapsed, triggering years of arguments about replacing it with a gargantuan project called Westway and then more years of constant construction whose purpose has never been apparent. Sitting in a traffic jam maybe 15 years after the original collapse, I was suddenly hit with the realization that I was not going to live to see the West Side Highway back in regular operation...
...recent New York history is any guide, none of us will live to see the resolution of this. The one comfort we can take as we go to our rewards is that this argument, being purely symbolic, will presumably have no effect on traffic...