Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Habits, appetites and, most of all, expectations have to change. To ease congestion, solitary life at the wheel must be replaced by mass transit and carpooling. Companies must adopt flexible work schedules and "telecommuting" -- taking advantage of the electronic revolution so that a bank's back-room operations, for example, can be located far from its headquarters. The single- family house has to be taken off its pedestal. Multiple-family dwellings and smaller lots will be required for the higher-density cities of the future. "Everybody would like to live in a mansion," says Sybert. "Well...
...treaty text of more than 1,000 pages includes such details as how many trucks can transit Austria and how many cod can be taken off Norway. In general, it requires EFTA to adopt most E.C. commercial practices, paving the way for a near doubling in the Community's size by the year 2000. EFTA countries can still maintain their own farm policies. Disputes, and there surely will be some, will be adjudicated by an independent joint court...
...arrests were part of an ongoing project directed by the Cambridge Police Department and assisted by police forces from Chelsea, Malden, Somerville, Boston University, the Massachessetts Bay Transit Authority, and Harvard, McCusker said...
...ideal of the suburbs, the old American dream of home ownership and clean, well-lighted streets, may still contain a dose of nobility. But this paradise of parking lots and chemically treated, weed-free grass has never lived up to its promise. No mass transit means that millions of minivans clog our roads and foul our air. Malls and office complexes have lovely little atriums with trees, even as their power plants consume vast reservoirs of fossil fuels to air condition them...
Except of course the transit authorities, who see to it that all these commuters can get where they want to go. But the opportunity is long past for these transit groups, arm and arm with socially aware urban planners, to create endless residential communities that still relied on Downtown for everything they needed. And the naive 80's hope that a "Big Project" Downtown would bring people back was a disaster. Riddled with corruption, ideas like Detroit's Renaissance Center turned out more like Flint's Auto World than Boston's Faneuil Hall...