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Before There Was a 1010 WINS Bridge & Tunnel Report

BridgeTraffic.jpgThe Brooklynite, a nicely put together independent literary magazine, has announced that it is ceasing publication. Before disappearing, editor Daniel Treiman has managed to publish one final issue online. It includes an excellent article on the very first traffic jam on the Brooklyn Bridge.

I suppose we have made progress, afterall:

Officially, the bridge's opening was dubbed "The People's Day," yet thepeople played no part in the festivities. As local and national officials, alongwith their invited guests, strolled leisurely over the bridge, members of thegeneral public were corralled into holding pens to await their turn. Thisarrived at midnight, as did chaos. A man at the front of the queue complained ofthe "helter-skelter" amid those "willing to pound one another to mince-meat."

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