There were struggles in the 1950s and 60s to stop freeways from cutting through the Panhandle and Golden Gate Park, which gave way to another slow growth political movement in the 1970s to push back on downtown high-rises as they encroached into North Beach and Chinatown.
The Blue Water Bridge crossing has six lanes of bridge traffic and non-stop freeway access, therefore providing a quicker route than the busier Ambassador Bridge crossing in Windsor, which features over ten traffic lights leading to the bridge.
Mr. Dapolito and powerful allies like Eleanor Roosevelt and Jane Jacobs successfully fought to remove traffic from the park and stop a freeway planned for Lower Manhattan.
In recent years, the Women's Twentieth Century Club of Eagle Rock worked to preserve the Charles Lummis House and to stop a freeway expansion from passing next to Eagle Rock High School.
"And with Fig, you have parking, a Gold Line stop, a freeway close by, but we needed something sleek and sexy, and that's where we got the idea for ETA".
Mass production; assembly lines; stop lights; freeways; shopping malls; suburbs and an emerging middle-class workforce: all these things were pioneered in Detroit.
One evening in April, driving home from a university function, I was stopped in freeway traffic caused by roadworks somewhere up ahead when I felt a massive jolt.
From Manhattan, he had taken a late-night Chinatown bus, which stopped at freeway off-ramps to discharge other restaurant workers, whose bosses picked them up and took them to strip malls along Interstate 95.
But in the annals of highly public break-ups, the recent news that California -- hallowed birthplace of the four-level stacked highway interchange -- would stop building freeways may represent the busted romance of the century.
With a tight schedule, we called ahead to reserve a table – which was embarrassing when the Interstate BBQ turned out to be, as the name suggested, a truck stop by the freeway.
Later in the episode, when his nervous son comes to a full stop on a freeway on-ramp, Key waxes philosophical.
