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America's mass transit is a shambles, and no help is in sight...
Nearly 30 million people ride subways, buses, trolleys or commuter trains every weekday in the U.S. Yet everywhere mass transit is either stalling or rumbling inexorably toward ruin. Items...
...Philadelphia last week, a bumper-to-bumper procession of cars, sometimes ten miles long, inched into the city while subways, buses and trolleys stood idle, sidelined by a strike of 5,000 transit workers, the fourth such in six years. Thousands of commuters from the city's outskirts tried to get downtown via Conrail, but that overtaxed railroad line had to leave hundreds stranded on platforms. Some of the 400,000 Philadelphians who rely on public transit took to bicycles to get to work. The strike, sparked by union protests over the hiring of part-time help...
Critics contend that some of the proposed budget cuts are self-defeating. New York Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn voices a widely shared fear that states and cities will raise taxes to make up for some of the proposed reductions in federal aid for education, health, transit and job-training programs. That would weaken some of the stimulus to the economy provided by cuts in federal income taxes...
...cuts strike unfairly at the poor. It is impossible to put a figure on how much of the $48.6 billion in proposed budget savings affects low-income people, both because of difficulties in defining who is "poor" and because some of the programs slated for the ax-mass-transit subsidies, for example-benefit several classes. But many of the deepest reductions, such as those in food-stamp and other nutrition programs, health, welfare and job-training plans, do come at the expense of low-income groups. Liberal Democrats vehemently argue that the Reagan tax reductions will save far more money...