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...silver Honda Civic leaves Kevin Greenlee's house and tools across Pleasanton, a fast-growing town 30 miles east of San Francisco. We're headed for the local Bay Area Rapid Transit station, where Greenlee, 41, an investments manager, will park the car for the day. It will not be waiting for him when he returns. While he rides a San Francisco-bound commuter train, someone else will get in the car and drive away. After that, five more people will get behind the wheel and put close to 100 miles on the Honda. Greenlee doesn't mind. "I just...
...unused in his garage for the past four months. During that time, Greenlee has shared 12 natural-gas Hondas with 60 strangers in an experiment called CarLink. The program is run by researchers at the University of California at Davis, who believe that car sharing can encourage mass-transit use while reducing pollution and traffic. It saves Greenlee money: he pays just $200 a month--covering insurance, fuel and maintenance--to have a Civic for himself at night and on weekends. Now he might get rid of the T-Bird...
...arms of a comrade, is in the swoon of death. PRO PATRIA ET GLORIA--"For country and glory"--their motto reads in granite, barely legible. The infantrymen rise 15 ft. above the ground, an altitude that is microcosmic from the distance of the Sea of Tranquility. SIC TRANSIT GLORIA? As much can be said of the statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in London, her Edwardian gown antique against the constantly renewed moon, which has waned and waxed over her and other great men and women. It has lasted; they have gone the way of all flesh. Emmeline...
More importantly, though, the system should not even be expected to sustain itself. Mass transit serves a public good from which every citizen, even one who doesn't ride the T, benefits. Public transportation keeps cars off the streets, curbing pollution and traffic. It brings people who don't own a car into the city, including the thousands of students in the metropolitan area. And, though its effect on Boston's quality of life is impossible to gauge, the T certainly contributes to a culture that does not revolve around the automobile the way so much of America does...
Buckley, a new Medford Police officer was the class president of the first graduates from the Metropolitan Boston Transit Authority (MBTA) police academy. Their graduation, which was held in Sanders Theatre, had a unique Harvard flavor...