Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...silver Honda Civic leaves Kevin Greenlee's house and tools across Pleasanton, a fast-growing town 30 miles east of San Francisco. We're headed for the local Bay Area Rapid Transit station, where Greenlee, 41, an investments manager, will park the car for the day. It will not be waiting for him when he returns. While he rides a San Francisco-bound commuter train, someone else will get in the car and drive away. After that, five more people will get behind the wheel and put close to 100 miles on the Honda. Greenlee doesn't mind. "I just...
...unused in his garage for the past four months. During that time, Greenlee has shared 12 natural-gas Hondas with 60 strangers in an experiment called CarLink. The program is run by researchers at the University of California at Davis, who believe that car sharing can encourage mass-transit use while reducing pollution and traffic. It saves Greenlee money: he pays just $200 a month--covering insurance, fuel and maintenance--to have a Civic for himself at night and on weekends. Now he might get rid of the T-Bird...
More importantly, though, the system should not even be expected to sustain itself. Mass transit serves a public good from which every citizen, even one who doesn't ride the T, benefits. Public transportation keeps cars off the streets, curbing pollution and traffic. It brings people who don't own a car into the city, including the thousands of students in the metropolitan area. And, though its effect on Boston's quality of life is impossible to gauge, the T certainly contributes to a culture that does not revolve around the automobile the way so much of America does...
Buckley, a new Medford Police officer was the class president of the first graduates from the Metropolitan Boston Transit Authority (MBTA) police academy. Their graduation, which was held in Sanders Theatre, had a unique Harvard flavor...
HOOFING IT. Although riding the shuttle is an entertaining event in its own right, many Quad residents extol the underappreciated virtues of foot transit. The well-travelled route from Hilles to Widener is peppered with several city sights and University offices, making it surprisingly more convenient and pleasant than might at first be apparent. The registrar is on the way, along with the undergraduate economics department and the Student Disability Resource Center offices. Hoofing to and from the Yard also brings travellers by the offbeat beatniks of Cambridge Common and the dapper Sheraton Commander bellhops, as well as within smelling...