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...calls or primetime movies, but they recoil at paying for roads they thought of as free. Of course, if Livingstone's plan fails, it will be another generation before congestion charging is tried again in Europe. So it's too bad that London is the test case. Its public transit system was creaking and fragile and stretched to the limit - even before the 20,000 more daily riders expected this week. And Londoners themselves, from long experience, tend to be wryly pessimistic about bold attempts at social engineering. "The charge will simply shift congestion [elsewhere]," says Gary Jennings, a self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cars That ate London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rome, Madrid, Vienna, Athens .. | 2/16/2003 | See Source »

...just because some [jerk] hates cars. I'm taking my business elsewhere. This ain't the city I was born in," writes a visitor to the popular Sod-U-Ken website. Some portion of the complaints are legitimate. After decades of underfunding and neglect, Greater London's public transit system is often late and sometimes lethal, leaving many commuters with few options. The profits from the new charge will be used to rehabilitate the system, but that will take time. Many Londoners find it hard to believe that the capital's transit authority can manage such a massive scheme; indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cars That ate London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rome, Madrid, Vienna, Athens .. | 2/16/2003 | See Source »

Even though the Koolhaas dream might have gone a little too far, other University architects are still hoping that Harvard will seize the opportunity to dramatically revitalize local landscape and transit systems...

Author: By Alex L. Pasternack and Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Fords the River | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

Every 15 minutes, the MBTA’s number 66 bus leaves Harvard Square and heads into Allston—a the only mass-transit option that leads into the new campus...

Author: By Alex L. Pasternack and Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Fords the River | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

Harvard is currently trying to make public transit like the number 66 bus more accessible to faculty, staff and students—including investigating a program that would allow University commuters to use their ID cards to pay for subway and bus fares, Nolan says...

Author: By Alex L. Pasternack and Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Fords the River | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

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