Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...railroaders, the U.S. commuter is a deadhead who does not pay his way. Even worse, he is now one out of every two passengers-and last year U.S. passenger traffic went $700 million in the hole. Railroaders have howled for years about commuter losses. But now, they insist, the losses have brought on a rail crisis. Last month the New Haven Railroad announced that it had a $15 million passenger deficit in 1956, asked for outright commuter subsidies from the states. Last week the New York Central, moaning that it is losing nearly $30 million a year on commuters, sued...
Such dire reports are regarded skeptically by rail users. Though no longer robber-barons, the railroaders often take a public-be-damned attitude in trying to cut passenger traffic. The New York Public Service Commission reported last week that the New York Central had deliberately left trains out of a timetable, presumably to discourage patronage. And though passenger traffic losses are accurately recorded under the bookkeeping system approved by the ICC, many experts quarrel with the system. They argue that losses are actually far less, simply because the passenger business, only 7% of overall rail business, carries...
Taxes are one big item in making commuter traffic a losing proposition. Airlines, trucks and buses serving Manhattan use modern, publicly built terminals and highways. But the New York Central and New Haven shelled out an $11.5 million city tax bill in 1956 on Grand Central Terminal and its 5.4-mile approach, a $2,000,000 increase since 1952. Furthermore, railroads must maintain cut-rate "incentive" commuter fares in hours of peak demand. A New Haven commutation ticket between New York and Greenwich, Conn, cuts the round-trip fare to $1.06 (v. straight-ticket cost of $2.20). Park Forest...
...most efficient method for moving commuters. But bigger fare increases alone are no real solution; they cause more commuters to use their own cars. Into Manhattan every day last year, some 18,000 more New Jersey commuters came by car than by rail. To move the bumper-to-bumper traffic, New York and other big cities are spending billions on highways and off-street parking sites-thus encouraging even more car commuters...
...YORK, Dec. 10--A growing subway strike, worst in the city's history, converted New York today into a vast, hopeless traffic jam. Two-thirds of the city's rapid transit service was knocked...