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...trucking industry, which hauls about 75% of the nation's goods, projects that lower diesel-fuel costs will save it $7.7 billion this year. Bus lines and local transit systems will benefit as well. Theodore Weigle, executive director of the Chicago Regional Transportation Authority, estimates that the decline in diesel-fuel prices could save his agency as much as $7 million in 1986. But for American railroads, the oil-price drop is a mixed blessing. The good news is that most U.S. freight trains are diesel powered; at Norfolk Southern Corp., in Norfolk, Va., for example, executives expect that saving...
ATHENS, Greece--The prime suspect in the TWA bombing spent six hours in the Athens transit lounge and left on a flight to Beirut minutes before the crippled American jet made an emergency landing nearby, police said yesterday...
Kokkinakis said Mansur left the TWA plane at Athens, entered the transit lounge immediately and boarded a Middle East Airlines flight six hours later that took off for Beirut minutes before Capt. Richard F. Petersen landed the bombed plane...
...year ago to clean and paint eight of the 800 bus shelters in his hometown of Portland, he was rewarded four months later with a promotion to eagle. More recently, Pulley, 16, earned a less meritorious recognition: his project was cited in a labor grievance for violating the local transit union's contract with the agency that runs the city's buses...
Complaining that Pulley's cleanup ignored provisions against subcontracting union work, labor leaders rasped that the project, which saved the agency about $480, should have been cleared with them. Transit officials defended the agency's right to work with volunteers. When the eagle scout was summoned as a witness in an arbitration hearing last week, at least one union leader was faintly defensive. Richard Ries, business manager for Division 757 of the Amalgamated Transit Union and a former eagle scout, allowed that "it sounds like we're taking a broadsword to the scouts." But sometimes, he insisted, good deeds...