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Though the plan would likely reverse the recent trend of growing ridership, Transportation Secretary Brock Adams insists that it is constructive. Still, he has pushed it in Congress mainly as a handy device for saving perhaps $300 million a year. Congress, which must reject or acquiesce in the scheme by May 22, has so far seemed woefully ready to let it go into effect without substantial changes...
Soglin, as alderman, helped push through a bill enabling the city to take over Madison's failing private bus line and has since got $2.135 million in federal grants for buying new equipment. As a result of improvements made during his administration, ridership on the bus line is up 17% in the last year. The mayor has also tightened housing inspection procedures, started a fund to provide loans for home rehabilitation, and opened city government to more people. Of the 370 people Soglin has named to city committees, 47.7% have been women and, in a city where only...
Meantime, ridership on mass transit is dropping. After weeks of increased patronage, revenues have begun to dip on Boston's rail and bus systems. In San Francisco, a 5% decline in transit customers has been matched by an increase in auto traffic on the Bay and Golden Gate bridges. The same pattern holds for the Metro in Washington, B.C., where the number of bus riders is steadily dwindling from a peak of 2.6 million passengers a week at the height of the energy shortage in March. Another gas-saving alternative-car pooling-has caught on only in Washington...
System wide revenues are running as much as 40% ahead of last year's. Ridership is up 36% between New York and Washington on Amtrak's speedy Metroliner, and nearly double last year's on the New York-Boston run. Therein lies Amtrak's problem: good fortune has landed in the wrong place. Those Northeast runs were well packed to begin with, and the new riders are giving Amtrak officials more business than they can handle effectively...
...along New York City's Broadway around 1830, privately owned transit systems throughout the U.S. were the only trains in town. Robber barons made fortunes on them, street traction stocks became a mainstay in widows' portfolios, and the Toonerville Trolley was enshrined on the funny pages. Then ridership began to fall off as automobiles flooded the streets, and local governments and independent transit authorities had to rush in and buy out the lines to keep them running. One by one, private companies fell into public hands: Detroit (1922), New York City (1932, 1940), Cleveland (1942), Chicago and Boston...