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...Regional Transportation Authority, which runs the Chicago-area bus and rail system. Byrne needs help from the state government, but she is not being conciliatory. If necessary, she says, the city is prepared to absorb the R.T.A. "as another branch of city government." A similarly defiant attitude during a transit crisis two years ago cost the system its state operating subsidy and the legal principle of equal treatment with state highways. The resulting deficit was met via a 20% increase in the city sales...
...this year; but next fiscal year, as 2 1/2 is phased in, the total will be $12 million less. By the time the law is fully phased in, four years hence, city officials say they will have enough money left to pay Cambridge's share of county and mass transit costs, the interest on its debt, and pensions--but nothing else. No policemen. No firemen. No teachers...
...Corps, the next day standing on the American tarmac somewhere, as if nothing had happened. One veteran remembers the awful solitude of homecoming: "They let us off on the Oakland side of the Bay Bridge. I had to hitchhike to the San Francisco airport because of a transit strike." The Americans who fought in Viet Nam responded when their country asked them to give up their freedom and possibly their lives to do violence in the name of something the Government deemed right. Veteran Ron Kovic's painful book Bom on the Fourth of July described how the image...
President Reagan does not intend to launch a major new public works spending program. In fact, as part of his budget-cut plans, he hopes to carve $31 billion out of federal spending on transportation over the next five years. The highway program would lose $11.2 billion, and mass-transit aid would be trimmed by $12 billion. Though Congress is expected to approve a large portion of the Reagan cuts, some lawmakers argue that the reductions are shortsighted. Says Democratic Congressman Henry Reuss of Wisconsin, the chairman of the Joint Economic Committee: "The whole thrust of the Reagan program...
Dallas, of course, has its share of urban shortcomings. Its mass-transit system, which consists of only 490 buses, is plainly inadequate, and a referendum on a new public-transportation system may be held soon. But, as City Councilman Lee Simpson says, "we've put our infrastructure in the hands of high-quality professionals, and our citizens have little tolerance for failure. That's why any weaknesses stand...