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Minutes after her last call to her sisters, Trent crashed her car into a concrete traffic island, dying at the scene.
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Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Those exiting the library parking lot and heading east face a similar challenge, with their left-turn lane now also blocked by a traffic island.
—Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025
Advertisement Barbara Hepworth, ‘Four-Square (Walk Through)’ 1966, bronze The traffic island at the Simon’s entry is dominated by Hepworth’s monumental, 14-foot-tall sculpture, which harnesses the traditional figurative material of bronze for the very different purposes of geometric abstraction.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
With the old stadium headed for demolition, it was placed on a grassy traffic island at the foot of a Manhattan exit ramp — a lonely greeter, to a mostly empty island.
—John Branch, New York Times, 2 May 2024
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Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Those exiting the library parking lot and heading east face a similar challenge, with their left-turn lane now also blocked by a traffic island.
—Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025
Advertisement Barbara Hepworth, ‘Four-Square (Walk Through)’ 1966, bronze The traffic island at the Simon’s entry is dominated by Hepworth’s monumental, 14-foot-tall sculpture, which harnesses the traditional figurative material of bronze for the very different purposes of geometric abstraction.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
With the old stadium headed for demolition, it was placed on a grassy traffic island at the foot of a Manhattan exit ramp — a lonely greeter, to a mostly empty island.
—John Branch, New York Times, 2 May 2024
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“Traffic island.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/traffic%20island. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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