Word: unclog
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Henry Barnes, 61, New York City traffic commissioner since 1962, who mounted a scrappy, unrelenting campaign to unclog the streets; after a heart attack in his office. "You can't be a nice guy and solve traffic," Barnes liked to say. He railed against privileged double-parkers and street repairmen, created miles of one-way avenues in Manhattan, and set up one of the largest electronically controlled signal systems...
...investment bank, whose officials in turn called a German and a Belgian bank to raise money for him, while a London bank acted as financial agent on the loan-which was quoted half in dollars and half in Deutsche marks. More deals like that would go far to unclog the capital channels...
...truly congested cities, the expanses of concrete built to unclog traffic are often jammed almost from the moment they open. The Long Island Expressway, designed for 80,000 by 1970, now carries up to 170,000 a day; and the Hollywood Freeway, intended for 120,000 by 1970, now conveys nearly twice that many. "This is the only business where, if you have record crowds the first day, you consider it a failure," says Chicago's Project Supervisor Patrick J. Athol. To technophobes, this proves the futility of building roads-but that is something like not building schools...
...cannot really have good transportation when you build a road to unclog roads. Then when it becomes clogged, you build another road," one man declared. "These roads will just clog up again. The real answer is mass transit...