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Taking things a step farther, President Johnson last year won approval for a $90 million program to put high-speed (160 m.p.h.) trains-much like those of Japan's famed Tokaido line-into service between Boston and Washington, the nation's most people-packed corridor. For a little farther in the future, Detroit auto men are working on a system called Teletrans, in which punch cards would guide 45-m.p.h. private capsules along a track inside a tube. There are also plans for automated superhighways on which card-steered cars would whiz from Detroit to Washington in four...
HIROSHIGE-Mi Chou, 801 Madison Ave. at 68th. In his 53 Stages of Tokaido, Japan's 19th century master printmaker depicts the teahouses and travelers, rainy downpours and icicled landscapes along the road that runs from Tokyo to Kyoto. Through...
...Hikari covered the run in a record 3 hr. 56 min. When regular service opens Oct. 1-ten days before the Olympic Games begin-some of the line's 60 passenger trains a day will make the run in four hours v. 6½ over the parallel Old Tokaido Line. The new line took five years to build, and skirts the sea for most of the way; its architects did away completely with grade crossings, designed 548 bridges, 66 tunnels and 57 miles of elevated right of way. The specially built streamlined trains are models of luxury and, unlike...
...heart. The scenic green seaboard between Tokyo and Osaka-containing only 16% of Japan's land-holds 43% of its population and half of its 500,000 factories. The lone highway between the two cities is hopelessly jammed. Planes fly often, but fares are high. And the Old Tokaido Line, opened in 1891, is so clogged with a quarter of the nation's passenger and freight traffic that passengers often reserve seats a fortnight ahead, marshaling yards overflow with goods, and maintenance crews repair tracks, with stopwatch timing, between trains only minutes apart...
While the New Tokaido will serve all of Japan's six largest cities, it is of particular importance to fast-growing Osaka (pop. 3,100,000), the enterprising center of 25% of Japan's commerce...