Word: transition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newspapers nor city officials had made audible complaint-until last spring when a little-known, not-quite-two-year-old monthly magazine called Seattle warned its readers that they would soon be living in a "concrete phantasmagoria" unless the city stopped building freeways and began to concentrate on rapid transit. Alerted to the danger at last, Seattle's two newspapers, which had been busily promoting freeways, changed their minds and started calling for rapid transit. Last month the mayor asked for $1,000,000 to get a study of possible transit systems started...
...architect for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, is also concerned about parking space. Pel will make recommendations to ease traffic and parking problems caused by the Library, which will be located on the Bennett St, transit yards. He will probably also include parking space on the Bennett St. site itself...
...goals for our city are high goals, and they will require brains, action, sweat, talent and muscle. Our program should be as big as our problems. Other cities have done it. Pittsburgh did it with air pollution. Chicago did it with crime. San Francisco is doing it with mass transit. Detroit is doing it with housing and schools...
...bill would authorize the state to buy the yards from the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority and then give as many as eleven acres to the federal government, which will run the Library. The Library Corporation could buy any land on the site not actually used for the Memorial...
...chronic shortage of revenue, could be solved only by new taxes. (New Jersey and Nebraska are the only two states in the Union that do not levy statewide taxes on income or retail sales.) Nor did the candidates electrify the populace with pleas for purer water, cleaner air, faster transit facilities...