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...Besides withdrawing from the passes, Israel will turn back to Egypt the Abu Rudeis oilfields; since being captured in the Six-Day War, they have furnished 50% of Israel's domestic petroleum requirements. Egypt will resume operation of the fields, acquiring access to them over an Egyptian-controlled highway along the Gulf of Suez coast. Israel will service its troops remaining in the area by means of a parallel road. In places where the two roads come close to each other, Israel will build detours in order to avoid incidents. The U.S., meanwhile, will guarantee Israel alternative oil supplies...
Most experts agree that the U.S.'s transportation network is gravely out of balance-too much emphasis on highways and too little on railroads and mass transit. The main reason can be summed up in four words: the Highway Trust Fund. Created by Congress in 1956 to build the 42,500-mile-long interstate highway system, now 85% complete, the fund has proved to be a financially irresistible force. It automatically receives some $4 billion every year from a federal gasoline tax of 40 per gal., plus another $2 billion from levies on diesel fuel, lubricating oil and other...
Last week President Ford sent Congress a message that seemed to ask for legislation to correct the situation. He focused on the federal gasoline tax, proposing to siphon 30 of the 40 per gal. away from the highway fund. Two of those pennies would become part of the Government's general revenues and could theoretically be used to aid mass transit, or indeed to bankroll any federal program. The remaining cent would go to the states, which in theory could also use the money for any purpose...
...this apparent trust-fund busting were not enough to sway Congress, Ford explained that his proposal would also limit the Federal Government's role in road building to areas of clear national concern like the interstate system. General highway building, he said, is a "classic example of a federal program that has expanded over the years into areas of state and local responsibility." The suggestion was that states and cities would gain new control over every aspect of road building, from financing to construction...
...golf is a short stroll enhanced. The most enhancing stroll enhanced. The most enhancing spot around for this activity lies on Route 9 in Natick, the west-of-Boston's answer to Route 1, which is the local habitual of a strange breed of the populace known as the Highway People. The Highway People never leave the freeway: they live in trailer parks, and move on when the spirit moves them (or when the notoriously prison-like mortgages and other traps of these mobile home oases allow it); they take nourishment at roadside snack bars; they recreate at rest stops...