Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other neighbors raised blunter objections: the project would, they said in effect, spoil the neighborhood by bringing in more people, more traffic, and large modern buildings, and perhaps at a later date, even commercial developments...
Mobs of people, traffic, strain on City services-those were some of the objections the group voiced to the Shady Hill plans. But perhaps the underlying cause of discontent was the feeling that 300 units of housing simply wouldn't fit, that a development of this size would ruin what some called the aesthetic and historical character of the neighborhood. As Jones put it, to visualize the size of the project, "you would have to picture two buildings the size of William James Hall surrounded by smaller buildings...
...enhancing the "shopping experience" for Harvard Square pedestrians, the proposed split-level walkway would stretch from the Yard to Mt. Auburn St., weaving in and around the buildings of the Square in such a way that "a whole new level of activity is created, undivided by streams of vehicular traffic," as described by the TAC proposal...
...bunch of amateurs like the Beatles invariably manage to surpass them all. Thus in the modern rock and roll scene there are, to name only a few, groups like the Who. with their titanic instrumental drive; or groups of the structural and textural subtlety of Traffic and Procul Harum: or maverick musical virtuosos like Laura Nyro and Jimi Hendrix-or, of course. the Rolling Stones, absolute masters of rock and roll rhythms of the rock and roll temperament...
...bound traffic on busy Mexican Routes 2 and 15 backed up for miles while drivers waited as long as three hours to get through customs. Many U.S. tourists were unwilling to put up with the delays, and many Mexicans, outraged at being searched "to the skin," joined a boycott against nearby U.S. cities. Officials in hard-hit San Diego were worried that without grass, kids would turn to hard drugs. In towns on the Mexican side, where trade was off 40% to 75%, businessmen were near panic. The gate evaporated at Tijuana's Agua Caliente race track, and occupancy...