Word: unclogged
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...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...
Asst. Secretary of the Army Hugh Milton said that the halt in recruiting of men with no prior military service was only temporary and that it was done to "unclog the pipeline" overloaded by the large number of men who have joined up in the last few months...
Last week Charlie Wilson swore Bedford in as head of the Production Executive Committee, gave him power to ride herd on the whole defense program. A few hours later, Bedford took off on a tour of West Coast aircraft and ordnance plants, hunting new bottlenecks to unclog...