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...part of a vast interior that few Australians ever see, since four-fifths of the country's 13 million people live in coastal cities. Together with such other way stations as Cookamidgera, Ivanhoe, Broken Hill, Bookaloo, Tarcoola, Koolyanobbing and Doodlakine, Kalgoorlie forms a new standard-gauge rail link across the continent. This single 2,461-mile track now connects swinging Sydney on the Pacific with tranquil Perth on the Indian Ocean. While the U.S. is cutting back on trains, Australia just added a third weekly transcontinental express in each direction. TIME Correspondent Roy Rowan made the trip and reports...
...beginning the following year, a portion of the highway fund will be freed for mass transit. In fiscal 1975, $200 million will be available to metropolitan transit systems exclusively for the purchase of buses. In 1976 cities will have the option of spending $800 million on mass transit, including rail systems...
...nerve gas kills so swiftly that inspectors carry live rabbits to warn them (by dying) of any leaks. In 1968, the Army had promised to move or "demilitarize," i.e., to detoxify and destroy, a certain portion of its deadly chemicals. In 1971, it started shipping nerve-gas shells by rail to the East Coast, where they were hauled out into the Atlantic and dumped...
From their early crusades against pollution, environmentalists have rapidly expanded the scope of their activities to tackle such issues as land use and energy policy. Now the courts have gone a step further by including declining rail service on the list of environmental concerns. Federal District Judge Marvin E. Frankel has ruled that the Interstate Commerce Commission cannot allow abandonment of any railroad service without showing that such an action does not "significantly affect the quality of the human environment...
Those arguments impressed the judge, who agreed that the curtailment or alteration of railroad routes-like the changing of the path of a river-should conform to the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act. The decision could affect the current trend of wholesale abandonments of rail service; U.S. railroads have already submitted plans to stop service on more than 250 stretches of track in 40 states, with 100 more cutbacks contemplated...