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...cope with it. More people every year crowd into the cities. Of the nation's approximately 80,000 cities, towns, villages, school boards, sanitary districts and other governments, most are too small, too fragmented, and too jealous of each other. There are few joint programs that would provide efficient transit for these people, educate their children effectively, or even haul away their garbage. The sheer growth in the numbers of people has led to many of today's inefficiencies ?traffic-jammed streets, uncollected trash, interminable waits for taxis, lunch tables or a sales clerk's attention...
...first administration took office to the screeching brakes of an immobilizing transit strike. Thereafter the city lost half its major daily newspapers, endured a monumental garbage strike, suffered the paralyzing aftermath of a great snowstorm, and mourned the loss of numberless school days as a result of the worst school strike in U.S. history...
...novel In Transit, Brigid Brophy visualizes the whole modern world as an airport waiting room, calling it, "a droplet of the twentieth century; pure, isolated, rare twentieth century." She must have been thinking of Paris' Orly Airport. When they land at Orly, tourists are only 14 miles from the heart of Paris. But before they depart for the city, they might do well to look around. If they do, they will discover why 3,200,000 people came to Orly last year, a million more than visited the Eiffel Tower-not to fly, but simply to sample the charms...
...team of 22 Business School students has presented the mayor of Quincy with a 300-page report on the MBTA extension's economic effect on his city. The new rapid transit route to the South Shore city of 90,000 is scheduled for completion this fall...
...least, a ton of steel or a kilowatt-hour of power will probably cost consumers more if the manufacturing process avoids pollution. On the other hand, makers of anti-pollution equipment may well enjoy a bonanza (see following story). There may be fewer autos in cities but more mass transit...