The City: Beating the Traffic

The day may never come when the traffic nightmare of modern U.S. cities will be permanently and happily solved. But little by little, Americans are learning to beat the frenzy with the imaginative use of modern techniques. One successful device: permanent television. Executives of the First National City Bank of New York, for example, use closed circuit television between midtown and Wall Street offices to avoid time-wasting and frustrating travel between two points that are 82 carbon-filled blocks apart.

Since the two locations are both "head" offices, the bank needed a way...

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