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Auto traffic too is increasingly gridlocked, from West Germany's autobahns to the streets of Paris. Despite Europe's efficient trains and subways, rail service is gradually losing customers because the past half-decade's prosperity has enabled so many people to buy cars. Governments have launched costly road-building programs, but new highways like London's two-year-old M25 beltway have quickly become just as jammed as the old routes...
...decision on the Los Angeles-Las Vegas line is due in 1989, when a 16- member commission will announce whether Transrapid or a conventional rail builder will receive the contract for the fast track to the gaming tables. No American company is expected to submit a maglev plan. Although the U.S. had a maglev project under way until 1975, federal austerity measures turned off the electromagnets. At least one politician, Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, wants funding for research resumed, but congressional action is not expected before next year...
...thing to rail against astroturf. It's even understandable to get upset about the dreaded domed stadium. And for those purists who like to get involved in the annual wrangle over the designated hitter rule, fine...
...city and hear the Berkshire Mountain Boys, Beat Acker and the Billings Gap, Southern Rail and other groups sing the songs of the Appalachians along the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border at the second annual Birch Hill Bluegrass Festival. A weekend pass includes two days of fiddle tunes, knee slapping music and camping space and can be purchased for $20. Admision Saturday only is $11 and after 6 p.m. is $5. Children get in free when accompanied by an adult. Sunday the admission price is $9. Hours Saturday are from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Sunday from...
...small number of Soviets in Suifenhe help manage the rail traffic. Vladimir Dudin, 38, lives for days, sometimes weeks, at a time in a converted refrigerator car on a siding at the Suifenhe train station. He has a tiny black-and-white television that is not powerful enough to pick up Soviet broadcasts; he has to settle for such fare as the U.S.-made series Little House on the Prairie dubbed in Chinese...