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...trains and ran the rest at a top speed of 18 m.p.h., less than half the normal maximum. Perspiring passengers tolerated the experience, muttering remarks like, "So at this speed, why the hell doesn't Con Ed cut its rates in half?" But slowing the rapid transit system also destroyed its appeal. As a result, private cars flocked onto the streets, their exhausts adding to pollution problems...
Abraham Morganstern, research director of the Electrical Workers Union, believes American workers have become overly dependent on war work. He predicts that the transition to a peacetime economy, which President Nixon has talked much about lately, will be more difficult than is generally realized. For one thing, says Morgan stern, the backlogged demand for consumer goods is far less than it was just after World War II and the Korean War. Certainly there will be other demands-for pollution control, school construction, mass transit, urban development. Work on some of these problems has been delayed...
...planned well enough, natural recreation areas could be integrated into humanely constructed working and living spaces. People would no longer have to travel interminably to get to their jobs. These complexes, each of which would house about a million people, would be connected by extensive networks of rapid transit facilities. The earth could then cover itself with forest once again, and men could build structures that would relate to the environment...
...could also have paid for all the foreign economic aid in the fiscal 1970 budget. Two billion dollars is nearly twice the amount of federal funds set aside this year for low-and moderate-income housing; it is almost 20 times the 1970 federal budget for urban mass transit and high-speed ground transportation...
...Corporation members did recognize the legitimacy of Campaign GM criticisms of management. "It is, of course, true that particular decisions by General Motors in the areas of minority rights, pollution, safety and mass transit may be questioned," they said...