Word: transit
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...Cabinet Secretaries have trooped into the Oval Office to meet with the President in recent weeks, each has faced major disappointments. To raise extra cash to finance AIDS research, childhood immunizations, Head Start and increased job training, Clinton plans to reduce funding for everything from public housing to mass transit to assistance for the poor to help heat their homes. All told, the budget calls for 118,000 fewer civilian workers on the federal payroll by Sept. 30, 1995, than when Clinton took office...
...surveying the catastrophe, the experts have begun to imagine a postquake L.A. that would have room for skyscrapers and swimming pools, that would have people off freeways, on mass transit and telecommuting on the information superhighway. Some believed that L.A. residents may finally be primed to accept changes that should have come long ago. Elwood Smietana, Southern California manager of EQE, a San Francisco earthquake-design firm, put it bluntly: "It really takes a disaster to get people off their butts...
...MASS TRANSIT. Immediately after the earthquake, exasperated commuters resorted to what would have been unthinkable in their car-worship culture -- they flocked onto commuter trains. Metrolink, the city's embryonic light-rail system, reported a tripling of morning passengers, from 10,000 to 30,000, on its four lines, and last week managed to retain 70% of the new ridership even after freeway detours began to reopen. The most popular by far was the 40-mile ride north to Santa Clarita, a new bedroom community cut off by the fractured Golden State Freeway; its daily ridership jumped from...
...future." Bill Clinton hopes the future starts this week. Just two days after Congress votes up or down on NAFTA, the President plans to meet in Seattle with leaders from 14 other Pacific Rim nations. With an expanding middle class and huge construction projects ranging from airports to mass-transit systems, the booming region should be in a spending mood for years to come. The Seattle gathering is a significant step in White House efforts to widen the pipeline for American exports to Asia, which is already the fastest-growing destination of U.S products and services...
Peter Erbland, communications coordinator at the AIDS Action Committee, criticized the transit authority yesterday...