Word: highway
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Federal Roads Commissioner Lowell K. Bridwell met behind closed doors with the City Council and their academic advisory committee on the Inner Belt for two and a half hours yesterday to discuss the fate of the highway...
Bridwell reportedly termed the advisory committee's proposal for a two year, $5 million re-study of the highway "conceptually excellent," but doubted than such a study of the long-range social costs of a highway was feasible at present. He presented a more limited counter proposal, which emphasize finding ways for Cambridge to cope with the Belt, rather than exploring various alternatives...
...insurance system modeled on workmen's compensation, with awards made strictly on the basis of loss rather than fault. "Financing such a system," he argues, "might be the easiest part of all." Some $3.4 billion a year in gasoline taxes is already being spent to build the Interstate Highway System. When the system is finished in 1973, Moynihan would simply raise the gas tax a penny or so a gallon and switch the revenue to insurance, for which motorists would pay no other premium...
Since Oct. 15, Red trucks have been streaming southward in bumper-to-bumper convoys. The Trail has been expanded in many stretches into a two-lane highway that is artfully camouflaged and heavily defended by dug-in and mobile antiaircraft batteries. So serious is the increase in traffic that the U.S. is now bombing more in Laos than in North Viet Nam. In December the U.S. flew 6,722 combat sorties over Laos, hitting fuel dumps, traffic and gun emplacements along the Trail, v. only 5,692 over North Viet Nam. Even so, roughly 80% of the trucks get through...
...service. Says W. Graham Claytor Jr., new president of the Southern: "The railroads must press hard for the right to sell transportation, not railroad service. Then they must supply it in the most economical form suited to the customer's needs, including in many cases a combination of highway, rail, water and even air." Saunders enthusiastically agrees. "A transportation company," he says, "should be able to offer a customer every kind of shipping service...