Now, in the latest ambitious and costly assault on gridlock, Los Angeles has synchronized every one of its 4,500 traffic signals across 469 square miles — the first major metropolis in the world to do so, officials said — raising the almost fantastical prospect, in theory, of driving Western Avenue from the Hollywood Hills to the San Pedro waterfront without stopping once.
When Liberal residents drive to church on Sundays, they're driving on avenues named after the heroes of what became the atheist movement.
Anecdotally, migraineurs report being bothered by television and computer screens, flickering fluorescent lights and flickering sunlight when driving past avenues of trees (8).
Several years ago, he explained, a stranger driving down the avenue slowed in front of the couple's house, leaned out his window and shouted, "Four hundred and fifty!" A purchase offer.
Mattie Baker, a project coordinator for "I Have a Dream," was driving down Memorial Avenue in southeast Atlanta that summer when she noticed Carter walking down the street.
After driving down Woodward Avenue, we dropped Marian's Explorer at our hotel, then walked to Harmonie Park, a small, recently gentrified, triangular neighborhood near the baseball stadium.
Twenty-seven years later, on January 6 , 1997 Andy Rosenzweig, the chief investigator for the District Attorney of Manhattan, was driving up Third Avenue, nosing through lunch-hour traffic, on his way to his doctor's office for a stress test.
The word quietude has appeared in nine New York Times articles in the past year, including on Jan . 21in "One Resident Returns Home to a Street of Uncertainty" by Kirk Semple: Several years ago, he explained, a stranger driving down the avenue slowed in front of the couple's house, leaned out his window and shouted, "Four hundred and fifty!" A purchase offer.
Forty years ago, we were driving up Woodward Avenue in our souped-up Dodges, Chevys and Fords, ogling braless girls and hot rods at suburban drive-ins, lip-syncing Motown and protest songs, rooting for the Tigers, who were winning that year.
The cars driving along the avenue go too fast to feel threatened by it at all; nor does the walking visitor feel threatened, as the arm is located far above human heightn.
