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...many of next month's Bicentennial festivities. A 131-page booklet called "Access Washington" is available to all paraplegic visitors; it lists all of the hotels, Government buildings, stores and other institutions that have facilities for the handicapped. In San Francisco, the Bay Area's new rapid transit system, BART, has equipped all stations with elevators to carry wheelchair users to both the ticket-buying and train levels; train doors are wide enough for two wheelchairs to enter abreast. Washington's new subway system has followed suit. In Atlanta, Milwaukee and Sacramento, public buses are being fitted...
...ground for the wicked, the incurable and the insane. Today the islet is a burgeoning new community, only 300 yds. from Manhattan but psychologically light-years distant. This week convenience and mystique came together with the opening of a $6 million aerial tramway -the first ever used for urban transit in the U.S.-that can waft 1,500 passengers an hour across the water...
Plans for a rail mass-transit system for Los Angeles have had about as much success with local voters as middle-aged housewives have had at the drug counter where Lana Turner was discovered some years ago. In 1968 and again in 1974 the electorate voted down such plans and decided to continue its love affair with the automobile. Nonetheless, a third and more grandiose plan will be tacked onto the June 8 presidential primary ballot in Los Angeles County. It calls for 232 miles of track-almost exactly the same as the New York subway system-to be built...
...local sales tax, increasing the rate in Los Angeles to 7? on the dollar. That is expected to raise $289 million the first year and $300 million in each succeeding year. In an authoritative voice former Television Newscaster Ward says: "Nobody else is going to pay for mass transit. If we wait for the Federal Government, it will be two centuries before the job gets done." Even so, the proposal has been rushed onto the ballot partly because Ward hopes that an affirmative vote will enable Los Angeles to snare $800 million in unallocated federal transit-aid funds before some...
...business, labor and civic leaders-including Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley-it has attracted a number of harsh critics. All believe that the plan has been too hastily developed and needs refining. Pete Schabarum announced that he would quit his post as a director of the Southern California Rapid Transit District in protest against the project. Says he: "I just don't believe that a fixed rail-transit system will work in Los Angeles. This is an area of urban sprawl, low density. with a great diversity of directions of trips." He also predicts that the cost will balloon...