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...squads of gleaming new blue-and-white patrol cars, the Chicago police escorted Ford north out of the city. At one point his route paralleled the tracks of an elevated rapid transit line. To keep the platforms clear of people, the trains were ordered to stop between stations while he sped...
Another two buses took us to the Oakland-Alameda Country Coliseum, where the Oakland A's, formerly the Kansas City A's, formerly the Philadelphia A's, play. BART, the nation's newest rapid transit system, also goes to the Coliseum. But not on weekends, and not on weekdays after 8 p.m. We had to wait until Monday to see if the future worked...
...form of transportation in America." But it needs to be made safer, cleaner and less wasteful of energy. So the Transportation Secretary urges improved cars and local policies to encourage motorists to stay off the roads during rush hours. Better traffic management, car pooling and parking lots near mass transit lines can accomplish...
While more mass transit is a must, the statement says, new rail transit lines are "appropriate" in only "a few highly populated metropolitan areas." Elsewhere, top priority should go to improving existing bus and subway service, even if the money has to come from funds earmarked for roads...
...weigh 1,750 tons? After looking at a variety of techniques, the Luckman designers, collaborating with Rolair Systems, Inc. of Santa Barbara, Calif, found the answer in air-film technology. Already used by Boeing to move heavy airframes about and by San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit system to swing subway cars around at terminals, this new technology allows large, bulky objects to be maneuvered on so-called air bearings-thin (.031 in.), porous plastic disks. When air is forced through the disks from above at high pressure, it builds up underneath them in a thin film that...