It called itself "The Atomic City" and envisioned thoroughfares bright with shiny, pastel-colored automobiles, a downtown humming with Cold War money.
In another, he pushed his "model streets" program, intended to build one bright, clean, renovated and repaved thoroughfare in each of 11 Baghdad districts so Iraqis could see what life might be like if they did not summarily throw their uncollected garbage onto the nearest median, a common practice now.
On Starling Avenue, the main Bangladeshi thoroughfare in the area, women in bright-colored saris pushed strollers past the Bangla Town Supermarket and the Dhaka Beauty Salon recently while bearded men in long robes and white skullcaps shopped at halal butchers.
It's a warm spring day in April as we walk down a busy thoroughfare in West Hollywood, with the sort of bright yellow sunlight that causes people to move to the West Coast.
While there are still drab boulevards and forbidding side streets, the main squares and thoroughfares are aglow with illuminated onion domes, commercial billboards and bright red stars still burning above the Kremlin's towers.
The Department of Transportation has posted bright yellow signs along Queens Boulevard urging pedestrians to be more alert when crossing the thoroughfare, where two more people were injured in an accident on Thursday.
Sunday in Moscow was a bright spring day, chilly but clear, and by the time I made my way to Tverskaya Street, Moscow's main thoroughfare, the sidewalks were full of people strolling up, toward Pushkin Square, and down, toward Red Square and the red-brick towers of the Kremlin.
thoroughfare – it was O.K.
"It became a major thoroughfare".
Road, Bangalore's main thoroughfare.
One thoroughfare divides them: Syria Street.
