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...Almost every modern motorist has experienced waves of desperation and dreams of violence while struggling bumper to bumper in a Sargasso Sea of fuming metal. Nobody can help him, nobody seems to care. No longer so on New Jersey's Garden State Parkway. Last week, at traffic-jammed toll booths on the 173-mile turnpike, toll collectors handed drivers cheerful little green and yellow cards certifying that "BLANK is a member in good standing of the Garden State Parkway Traffic Club and is hereby cited for his patience, under standing and stop-and-go driving skill." The cards, explained...
...nation's 84 million cars are cleaned regularly by car washes, and the industry wants nothing more than to attract some of those unwashed millions. Its latest lure is the low-cost, coin-operated car wash, which is activated by quarters and operated by the motorist himself...
...conscious of the occasional shouted insult as a group of five white police pass about twenty young negroes in front of a Seventh Avenue bar. Even the passing white motorist is not immune to verbal obsenities, if he envinces too much interest in the street scene...
Because the new law gives the motorist complete right of way over the pedestrian except at crosswalks without traffic signals, courts may be less sympathetic in awarding damages to pedestrians injured while jaywalking, Rudolph predicted...
...stall-in got nowhere. For one thing, a chill rain kept thousands of would-be fairgoers at home. For another, the fear of getting caught in Brunson's traffic jam was enough to make all but the most imprudent motorist stay off the highways. So light was the traffic, in fact, that driving became almost a pleasure...