Word: bus
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...equipment, dismal service and deepening deficits, several cities boosted fares this month just to keep their systems sputtering along. As a further sign that there may be no light at the end of the mass-transit tunnel, the Administration promises to phase out by 1985 federal operating subsidies for bus and rail systems, now running at $1.1 billion a year and making up 13% of total costs...
...seems closer to stopping dead in its tracks than New York City's, the largest in the nation with 5 million daily passengers. With an operating deficit of $500 million for this fiscal year, the state's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) two weeks ago upped subway and bus fares from 60? to 75? and raised the prices of commuter tickets on Conrail and the Long Island Railroad by an average of 25%. The MTA also threatened to hike fares to $1 by mid-July unless the state legislature covered an estimated shortfall of $331 million The legislature finally...
...Philadelphia, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) raised fares on the city's bus, trolley and subway lines from 65? to 70? last week-the third hike since 1978, when a ride cost 45?. If that were not bad enough, Conrail is threatening to shut down its commuter lines around Philadelphia, which carry 65,000 people on weekdays, unless SEPTA increases its annual subsidy from $93 million to $99 million. SEPTA Chairman David Girard-diCarlo insists that his agency is broke and may seek a court order to keep Conrail behind the throttle. If he fails, SEPTA may have...
...Fairfield (Conn.) University for a couple of years and then held odd jobs close to home. "He was trying to get his act together," says his brother Nimar. Recently a family friend in Washington, D.C., offered him a waiter's job. One morning he boarded a bus for New York City on his way to Washington. Says Nimar: "Before he left he said, 'How great it is to be a human being...
...life-styles," Feinstein takes particular delight in the fact that San Francisco is one of only four major U.S. cities operating in the black. Last week she was able to announce a 10.4% increase in the city budget, allowing her to hire 91 badly needed policemen and 33 bus and streetcar workers. Still, the increase is the smallest in three years...