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...confirmed, Elizabeth Dole will take over a department where political astuteness, rather than transportation expertise, is the watchword. She will be responsible for portioning out billions of dollars to states and cities for highway, airport and mass-transit programs. She will have to implement many of the policies put into effect by Lewis, one of Reagan's most highly regarded Cabinet members. Her biggest challenge will be to complete the rehabilitation of the air-traffic-control system, which was left in shambles after the controllers' walkout in August 1981. She also has to carry...
...left the center to return for our exam, our car ran over an enormous nail on the highway, which ripped right through one of the tires. There was no spare in the car, and no repairman was available until the next day. We were in a remote area, and there was no other choice for us but to spend the night in a nearby motel. Only today was the tire repaired, and so we are a day late for your final...
Hamlets were cut off by the vagaries of Interstate routes. Along South Carolina's old Highway 301, prosperous towns like Olanta (pop. 700), eight miles off the new Interstate 95, quickly withered. Explains Mortician and Olanta Mayor J. Kelton Floyd: "In 1963, during one three-month period, we shipped 27 bodies out of state. Last year we didn...
When Congress passed the nickel gas tax, designed to save the nation's crumbling highway system, it offered a trade-off to the depressed trucking industry. To be sure, truckers will be paying more not only for fuel but also for user fees, which will balloon from $210 a year to $1,900 (in 1987) for the biggest rigs. But in return they will now be allowed to drive outsize double-trailer trucks on the full length of the interstate highway system and on most of the nation's 230,000 miles of "primary" federal and state roads...
...trade-off is ironic, since the double trailers-more than 75 ft. long, 102 in. wide and up to 80,000 Ibs. in weight-are highway crushers. The Georgia transportation department estimates that one fully loaded big rig does as much damage as 4,550 cars. Moreover, federal studies show that the large trucks are not as safe as standard models because, empty or partly loaded, their wheels are more likely to lose contact with the road when brakes are applied...