Madison, May 1967 - The Bus Lane Protest
Madison – May, 1967. The Bus Lane Protest By the spring of 1967. many campuses were having demonstrations against the war, the draft, and the CIA. But only Madison had a disruptive protest over a bus lane. In 1960 the city announced a ten-year plan to improve University Avenue from Bassett Street to Old Middleton Road, the first phase focused on the campus area — four lanes heading west and one lane heading east, reserved for buses. Nobody objected. But when the new road finally opens in No...
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