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Professor Arthur Ling conceived the layout for the new Runcorn as a figure eight with the town center at the intersection. The town is broken by parks into distinct neighborhoods which are connected by a rapid transit of minibuses...
...conditioning, a positive pleasure. One year old this week, it has proved so popular that passenger traffic is running 50% higher than expected; the Metro has even generated an extra midday rush as executives have taken up the European practice of going home for lunch. Montreal's present transit strike only points up the Metro's importance: by conservative estimate, 50,000 additional autos are clogging downtown streets because of the strike...
Spurred on by Montreal, San Francisco is making an all-out effort to have good design the hallmark of its $1 billion-plus Bay Area Rapid Transit system, now under construction. About one-third of the 75-mile system will be underground, and Market and Mission streets are already being excavated. What San Franciscans will ride in when B.A.R.T. begins operations in 1970 is the latest in trains: streamlined, air-conditioned, 72-passenger cars that will average 50 m.p.h., with bursts up to 80 m.p.h., and will be directed by computers to run as close as 90 seconds apart during...
Convinced that the time has come to overhaul its antiquated and uncomfortable system, New York City's Transit Authority recently announced a $5,800,000, six-station renovation program. It has also begun experimenting with air-conditioned, sound-proofed cars with fiber glass molded seats and hopes to cut down noise by laying rubber cushioning between the tracks and roadbed and by replacing short sections of track with longer, welded ones...
From a technical point of view, the Queens' successor will be a more sophisticated lady. The ship' is 13 ft. narrower and draws 7 ft. less water, which means that, unlike them, it can transit the Panama and Suez canals and call at ports they had difficulty entering...