Governor John Volpe interceded in the 1950s to send the last section of the Central Artery underground, through the Dewey Square Tunnel ; while traffic moved somewhat better, the other problems remained.

By the late 1950s, the once-prosperous port area of downtown Manhattan was occupied by a number of dilapidated shipping piers, casualties of the rise of container shipping which drove sea traffic to Port Elizabeth, New Jersey.

In the early 1950s, an extension to Dimona and south was constructed from the Railway to Beersheba, designed for freight traffic.

By the mid 1970s, as other cities became increasingly choked in traffic and air pollution, Melbourne was convinced that its decision to retain its trams was the correct one, even though patronage had been declining since the 1950s in the face of increasing use of cars and the shift to the outer suburbs, beyond the tram network's limits.

Rallying became very popular in Sweden and Finland in the 1950s, thanks in part to the invention there of the specialsträcka ( Swedish ) or erikoiskoe ( Finnish ), or special stage: shorter sections of route, usually on minor or private roads — predominantly gravel in these countries — away from habitation and traffic, which were separately timed.

In the 1950s and 1960s, dams were built along the river ending this river traffic on Spanish and border sections.

It was one of the last canals to carry significant commercial traffic ( through the 1950s ) and is still open to traffic and is used by pleasure craft.

This line was closed for passenger traffic during the early 1950s with final closure occurred by British Rail in 1981.

The town gained notoriety during the 1950s and 1960s for its aggressive traffic enforcement policies.

The southern section, Daniel Bray Highway, is a 55 mph ( 90 km / h ), divided four-lane facility with at-grade intersections and traffic lights, and was constructed in the 1950s.

The line was closed to passenger traffic in the 1950s and to freight in the 1960s.

Transportation was provided by the Frisco Railroad, which offered six trains per day — three in each direction — until it closed to passenger traffic during the late 1950s.

Transportation was provided by the Frisco Railroad, which offered six trains per day ( three in each direction ) until it closed to passenger traffic during the late 1950s.

320 since the 1920s and an original planned extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the 1950s ( as part of the Turnpike network ), was finally opened to traffic in 1992.

Coal production and rail traffic declined rapidly throughout the 1950s.

The latter campaign is interesting in that it shows Franquin's evolution from car enthusiast inventing the Turbo-traction and other fancy sports vehicles for Spirou in the 1950s, to disillusioned citizen concerned over traffic and pollution in later years.

It operated 24 hours a day during its 1950s heyday, but business diminished after the Turner Turnpike diverted cross-country traffic from the town's main street.

The city got a boost in the 1940s and 1950s from heavy automobile traffic along US-27, which was a primary artery connecting the Great Lakes region with Florida before I-75 was completed.

Railway traffic, by contrast, remained steady during the 1950s but the economics steadily deteriorated, with labour costs rising faster than income and fares and freight charges repeatedly frozen by the government to try to control inflation.

By the mid 1950s, construction of traffic circles and rotaries had ceased entirely.

For the rest of the 1950s and 1960s, despite some short-term disturbances in 1967 resulting from a spill over into Hong Kong of the Cultural Revolution in China, both domestic and cross-border traffic continued to show steady overall growth.

By the 1950s civil air traffic had outstripped the facilities at Nutts Corner and, in addition, aircraft were being regularly diverted to Aldergrove because of adverse weather conditions.

Throughout the 1950s Dublin Airport expanded with virtually uninterrupted traffic growth.

Modern use of AAC began in the 1950s with systems for users who had lost the use of speech following surgical procedures.

Production began in the Cuanza basin in the 1950s, in the Congo basin in the 1960s, and in the exclave of Cabinda in 1968.

Farming of abalone began in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Japan and China.

International recognition began with the success of huge geodesic domes during the 1950s.

The computer term bootstrap began as a metaphor in the 1950s.

Bootstrapping in program development began during the 1950s when each program was constructed on paper in decimal code or in binary code, bit by bit ( 1s and 0s ), because there was no high-level computer language, no compiler, no assembler, and no linker.

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

During the 1950s, however, Graham began distancing himself from the older fundamentalism and, in preparation for his 1957 New York Crusade, he sought broad ecumenical sponsorship.

After the 1950s, the city's population began to decline slowly, as families tended to be replaced by single people and young couples.

If the air mass is colder than the ground below it, it is labeled k. If the air mass is warmer than the ground below it, it is labeled w. While air mass identification was originally used in weather forecasting during the 1950s, climatologists began to establish synoptic climatologies based on this idea in 1973.

Considered to be one of his most powerful and impressive periods in the late 1950s he began working in black and white up until the mid-1960s.

However, many readers recognized Barks ' work and drawing style, and began to call him the Good Duck Artist, a label which stuck even after his true identity was discovered by fans in the late 1950s.

He began buying time on a local Los Angeles television station in the early 1950s to run infomercials for his " Criswell Family Vitamins ".

In the 1950s, began a rise in well-known dramatic actors.

As early as the 1940s, scientists in the U. S. had begun expressing concern over possible hazards associated with DDT, and in the 1950s the government began tightening some of the regulations governing its use.

One highly popular and respected General Agency program is the “ Week of Compassion ,” named for the special offering to fund the program when it began in the 1950s.

The late Jeff Sarli, a blues upright bassist, said that, " Starting in the 1950s, they began to reset the necks on basses for steel strings.

The 1960s were the peak years of the Japanese New Wave movement, which began in the 1950s and continued through the early 1970s.

In the 1950s ( see 1950s in film ) the industry began to retreat slightly from the prestige productions which had made British films successful worldwide, and began to concentrate on popular comedies and World War II dramas aimed more squarely at the domestic audience.

Thus early 1950s historian of fandom Jack Speer began to label successive generations of fans as First Fandom, Second Fandom, Third Fandom, and so forth ... all the way to Seventh Fandom and beyond.

The drop in fertility rates in America began in the late 1950s.

The revival of interest in Telemann began in the first decades of the 20th century and culminated in the Bärenreiter critical edition of the 1950s.