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...Metropolitan Transportation Commission, a regional planning agency. Around the country, about 70% of all workers get to the job driving alone in a car. In San Francisco, it's only 38%. Heminger points out that San Francisco lost two freeways in the 1989 earthquake and has a rusting public-transit system. But as it becomes more obvious that mass transit is the way to relieve pollution and traffic, the Federal and state governments often respond with a collective "Drop dead!" Heminger says the best hope is to raise money through local increases in the gas tax or other levies. Honk...
...Winston of Washington's Brookings Institution and co-author of The Evolution of the Airline Industry. On the other hand, he notes, Midwest's reach may be limited in the long term by the industry's trend toward lower costs and cheaper fares to match, exemplified by that mass-transit paragon, Southwest Airlines...
...Doesn't sound like much, but remember that the trend in human girth is running opposite: Americans are getting bigger. The cush has been taken out of the cushions too, from 4 in. to 1/2 in., in order to make room for--ahem--more seats. "Transportation is now mass transit," says consultant Boyd. "Consumers are held captive. Travel isn't elegant anymore...
Soon, the system became indispensible to the workings of the small group. Soon, the system began to break down. The turtle had become lax in maintaining the network that connected the machines, with the result that pupils' papers disappeared in transit; elders researching in obscure parts of the swamp got lost forever because their pheromone cries for help were never received (many elders who had refused to use the system from the start were spared this fate, but they had been, by wide consensus lost already); in short, the hub began to dissolve...
...times, and this time his constituents will probably make it eight. He represents cultural conservatism--his abortion votes are in line with Catholic doctrine--popular in the Third and, as a ranking member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, can influence job-producing federal funds for highways and mass transit...