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Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz last night said the United States should legalize heroin and marijuana, and possibly cocaine--while Secretary of Transportation James H. Burnley said existing laws are already...
...will begin a ten-year, $4.3 billion project to rebuild and reroute some seven miles of highway, including Central Artery. Construction will add four traffic lanes, enough to accommodate an anticipated 210,000 vehicles a day, and will replace the elevated roadway with a tunnel. But Transportation Secretary James Burnley sternly criticizes the underground portion of the project for not adding enough capacity...
...surge of commuter autos paralyzed Manhattan's street grid.) Congestion on two-lane highways in the 1950s hastened construction of the 42,797-mile interstate system, which will be officially completed in 1991 (estimated final cost: $108 billion). But the interstates eased overcrowding only temporarily. Says Transportation Secretary James Burnley: "It's not a problem that will be resolved in a final, permanent way in my lifetime...
Breaking gridlock will take all the ingenuity the U.S. can muster, especially in a time when the nation cannot afford to buy millions of yards of concrete to pave over the problem. Says Burnley: "Because we are a free country, people are able to change their travel patterns overnight. So the challenge is to be able to think more creatively." But meanwhile, taxpayers and travelers will have to shoulder the cost for a prudent amount of highway patching and airport building. The longer such work is postponed, the more chronic the gridlock will become. If America still hungers to move...
...Eastern and Continental airlines since April began to disperse last week. The two carriers and their beleaguered parent company, Texas Air, were judged safe and sound in an unprecedented Government inspection of the airlines' 636 jets and of Texas Air's management and finances. According to Transportation Secretary James Burnley, Texas Air is currently "fit, willing and able" to perform safely, but the Government warned that labor-management strife at Eastern poses potential future hazards. As a precaution, Burnley appointed William Brock, a former Secretary of Labor, to act as a liaison between the company's unions and management...