"Traffic controls were frequently as primitive as sewage disposal. With the development of the skyscraper, two to six new 'cities' rose from the streets of the old; massive traffic jams became a daily hazard of urban life. 'Every day the congestion increases,' [Clarence] Stein concluded, ' in spite of traffic policemen, curb setbacks, one-way streets, electric traffic signals.' Subways were equally crowded by 1925."
-- Back to Nature: The Arcadian Myth in Urban America, Peter J. Schmitt, 1969, p. 178.
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