Title | : | the roads must roll |
Air Date | : | 09.01.1950 |
Plot | : | + "The Roads Must Roll". The story of the rebellion of the engineers that keep the roads rolling. The script was used subsequently on "X Minus One" on January 4, 1956. + It was in the middle 1950’s that the automotive age began to die; the traffic engineers had long expected it. For years they had watched our vast cities sprawl and spread out, spill over in to the countryside, become more and more dependent on motor transportation. And then finally the inevitable breaking point was reached. The growing flood of cars and buses and trucks began to swamp the streets and arterial motorways. The building of roads could no longer keep pace, the superhighways clogged, congested became packed with cars bumper to bumper and the cities began to die a slow strangulation for the traffic could no longer roll… |
File | : | the_roads_must_roll-1950-09-01.mp3 |
File Size | : | 8.47Mb |
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