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...prepared for even initial austerities. The teachers' union was threatening a strike last week over city attempts to increase their duties and class size and eliminate some jobs (see EDUCATION). Congressman Herman Badillo and Congresswoman Bella Abzug urged New Yorkers to refuse to pay the new transit fare, raised last week from 35? to 50?. In parts of the city, protesters jumped subway turnstiles. At least in one case, they provoked a bloody confrontation with police...
...when the lame-duck mayor's second four-year term expires in January. Replied Alioto: "That's the best speech she's ever made." Somehow, though, the city's divided authorities got together long enough to head off a strike by 1,900 transit workers that had been threatened for the end of the week. The workers were quickly granted a 2.3% pay increase...
...Landslides block the northern end of the Golden Gate Bridge. The great span itself, although whipping like a giant snake, appears to be holding. The Bay Bridge, too, survives the initial battering, but its clogged approaches fall, bringing down hundreds of cars with them. In the Bay Area Rapid Transit System's 3.6-mile-long underwater link between San Francisco and Oakland, hundreds of commuters are trapped in the terrifying darkness of the swaying tube. Only 30 seconds have elapsed since the first jolt was felt, but everywhere there is unbelievable death and destruction. At least 10,000 people...
...Udall speaks of "restructuring the economy" in favor of service industries that use less energy and raw materials and employ more people. For example, $5 billion in federal highway funds might be transferred to a national health care program. He urges similar shifts of funds to housing construction, mass transit, education and environmental control. But he is vague about how these programs will continue to be paid for in an economy that grows more slowly...
Arco judges its idea-picking campaign to be a resounding public relations success. "People are calling us an enlightened company," smiles Executive Vice President E.M. ("Mo") Benson. The next step is to see if that enlightenment is contagious. Many private and public transit companies could put the most feasible ideas to good use. But first Arco is forwarding its favorite schemes to the U.S. Department of Transportation, hoping that officials there will consider the fresh new slants that were suggested by concerned Americans...