Word: railings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cars into their already congested streets. This year the Senate decided that the priorities need some reordering. In its version of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1972, the Senate allows cities to use their $800 million share of the now $5 billion trust fund for mass transit, including rail systems. Last week, highway opponents were working feverishly to get a similar provision into the House version of the bill...
...millions. To hedge against such losses, dealers usually go into the commodities futures market and buy enough grain to cover each order, contracting to purchase the grain at a specified price six months to a year ahead. Shipping the grain itself from storage elevators-sometimes by a combination of rail, river barge and cargo ship-is an intricate exercise in logistics that requires precise timing. Delays caused by labor strikes or foul weather can eat into profits...
This would be an impressive package by any standard. For residents of the San Francisco region, who will see the $1.4 billion Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) begin operation this week, it represents not only a considerable achievement-it is the first new rail transit system to be built in the U.S. in 65 years-but something of a challenge as well. BART was built as an attempt to entice San Francisco commuters out of their cars and onto a fast, smooth rail transport system that serves the entire Bay Area. Says Lawrence Dahms, BART'S assistant general manager...
Fund Failure. Apparently the voters of three Bay Area counties-San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa -thought so in 1962, when they approved a $792 million bond issue to fund construction. BART was intended to order growth more rationally than new highways on the theory that development follows a rail system's route while highways are usually built wherever anyone develops the land. Beyond that, the planners argued that BART would allow poor citydwellers to get to new industrial jobs in the booming suburbs. But what really explained the vote, cynics say, was that most motorists simply hoped that...
Officials closed 64 miles of the Pennsylvania Turnpike to traffic. Roadbed washouts crippled rail traffic around Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York City. The Potomac crested in Washington at 6 ft. above flood level, the highest in 36 years; the Kennedy Center approaches were inundated, and Army engineers packed protective sandbags near the Washington Monument. At Corning, N.Y., all of the Corning Glass Works facilities were under water; nearby in Elmira, 20 ft. of water lapped at buildings in the downtown business district...