crossing-bridges

Updated: May 9, 2025

Now, every new artery means a series of new whirlpools of traffic, such as the pensive Londoner may study for himself at the intersection of Shaftesbury Avenue with Oxford Street, and unless colossal or inconveniently steep crossing-bridges are made, the wider the affluent arteries the more terrible the battle of the traffic. Imagine Regent's Circus on the scale of the Place de la Concorde.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Anticipations : Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought