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Not far from Union Station, and the multimillion dollar Visitor Center erected in celebration of the Bicentennial, sits an old but stately building—an anachronism now largely unused and visibly isolated from more modern structures that testify to the rapid redevelopment of Northeast Washington, D.C. At its peak in early 1976, Saint Joseph’s nursing home sheltered 168 elderly poor, most of whom were over 85 years of age; another 350 men and women were on the waiting list maintained by the Little Sisters of the Poor. Unfortunately, two years earlier, the District of Columbia government had begun construction on a six-lane highway overpass only a few feet from the main entrance of the home. In part, the rationale for building the overpass was to improve the access to the Visitor Center and to ease the traffic congestion that would surely accompany the invasion of tourists for the Bicentennial festivities.
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Llewellyn, L.G. (1981). The Social Cost of Urban Transportation. In: Altman, I., Wohlwill, J.F., Everett, P.B. (eds) Transportation and Behavior. Human Behavior and Environment, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4001-0_7
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