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"Traffic of the Future" (April 20, 2014)

Street Lab
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A New Jersey community tries to predict what traffic will sound like in twenty years.

Today, urban planners can use computer modeling to predict the future. But in the 1970s, they had to use more rudimentary methods to imagine what traffic would look and sound like. In this program from April 20, 1972, Shep tells the story of how one New Jersey community tried to plan for growth.

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