Word: kerrey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Great Circles. No starry-eyed planners, they started with a practical engineering study of traffic and congestion in the city. Their studies convinced them that Manhattan's basic trouble is hardening of the arteries-a creeping paralysis of transportation. Kerrey's plan begins, therefore, with reorganization of Manhattan's streets to restore circulation. Around the central part of the island would run a belt highway. It would carry all through north-&-south traffic, would be fed by widely spaced cross streets at about 15-block intervals. About 90% of the present crosstown streets, and Madison and Lexington...