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...transit strike tests the mettle of New Yorkers...
...last week. A transit strike had closed down New York's celebrated subway system and driven its lumbering buses off the streets. As a result, New Yorkers were walking, running or riding just about anything availablebicycles, helicopters, roller skates, unicycles, ferry boats, mopeds, minibuses. Some 200,000 people cycled around town one day, and 6,600 hoofed it across the Brooklyn Bridge. The New York Road Runners Club stationed members along the way to dispense water to the weary during the rush hour...
...adjust to living without a system that they often have trouble living with. Some 5.1 million passengers a day ride the city's subways and buses, making the transportation network the nation's busiest, second in the world only to Moscow. The Big Apple's transit problems are as enormous as its workload: broken-down and obsolete equipment; rolling stock disfigured by grime and graffiti; rush-hour rib crunching; well-publicized crime ranging from muggings to people being pushed in front of onrushing trains; and to top it off, a projected $200 million deficit for the coming...
...recognized them from previous Monday mornings. Ailanthus (named after a hearty tree that grows even through cracks in city sidewalks) has sent leafletters to the site every week for nearly a year, hoping to persuade workers the lab should not design nuclear weapons. A proposal that Draper design mass transit systems failed in the early '70s when it did not get federal funding...
...major cities, which will be hurt by a proposed cancellation of revenue-sharing funds from Washington. Chicago stands to lose $55 million for its school system, which is already so strapped that teachers suffered four payless paydays last winter. Cleveland may have to buy fewer buses and rapid-transit cars; Miami fears its parks will deteriorate without federally paid help; St. Louis may be forced to stop serving free meals to the elderly poor...