Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...area and the airport (fifth busiest in the U.S.) that cuts driving time 23 minutes; 20,000 new jobs yearly since 1962, which is double what Allen was shooting for and has given Atlanta the lowest unemployment rate of any major U.S. city. Only his dream of a rapid-transit system is still unfulfilled, but it is in the blueprint stage...
...hours in 1960, now takes just 17.7 minutes. Los Angeles has a last laugh too: in 1957 a survey showed that peak-hour speeds on all freeways and streets averaged 24 m.p.h.; last year the average was up to 31 m.p.h.-not grand prix, but better than most mass transit...
...peaking up any more; it's spreading." Little more than 5% of all metropolitan traffic in most cities is bound for the downtown area; most of it is skirting the city. And for such as New York and San Francisco, the answer lies mainly in more mass transit facilities (although New York is preparing to build a 2.5-mile Lower Manhattan crosstown expressway; estimated cost: $100 million a mile). In San Francisco, where the city board of planners have refused since 1958 to allow any freeways to be built, the 75-mile Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) automated system...
...Limited slowed for a laggard signal. From his starched collar to his shiny black shoes, the stocky, craggy-faced passenger was obviously a farmer returning from the city, impatient to see how many inches the corn had grown in his absence, begrudging every precious second of daylight lost in transit. Finally, 172 miles and 155 minutes out of Chicago, the train glided to a halt at Mattoon, III., and the fretful passenger hopped...
...textbooks, audio-visual aids and laboratory equipment that already constitute a major part of the $1.7 billion a year school-equipment-and-supply business. Similarly, the $375 million mass-transportation subsidy, conceived to save strangling cities, will pour adrenalin into the economy. Impressed by increasing Government-financed mass-transit spending and anxious to get a chunk of the $8 billion equipment market, U.S. Steel last week introduced a new steel and glass car that can be adapted to both bus chassis and rails. Bigger Bites. There is, of course, another big side to the effects of welfare legislation. Higher social...