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NUMBERS RACKET. To encourage greater use of mass transit, several writers proposed a rolling numbers game: every time they take a bus or subway, riders would be given a lottery ticket that would make them eligible to win cash prizes in weekly drawings...
Many contributors had ideas for new kinds of vehicles: a personal trolley-auto advocated by Ronald Uher of Crystal Lake, Ill., for example, could either hook up to overhead electric trolley lines or run on its own power. Other suggestions focused on improving mass-transit finances. Several people proposed that municipal buses, trolleys and subway cars earn additional Income by hauling freight in off-hours. To produce perhaps $1.5 million in annual revenues, Benjamin Lawless of Washington, D.C., urged that a grain crop be grown on the 5 million acres of federal land bordering the interstate highways. Then there...
...second term, Bologna has almost become a model city. The town's historic center has been preserved by renovating housing with public funds and subsidizing rents to persuade people to live there. Draconian traffic controls ban automobiles from large sectors of the inner city; free rush-hour transit service further persuades people to leave automobiles at home. To aid working mothers, Bologna has built 300 nursery schools, which are maintained with municipal funds. "That Zangheri," says Novelli admiringly, "is a golden monster when it comes to administration...
...legislation to correct the situation. He focused on the federal gasoline tax, proposing to siphon 30 of the 40 per gal. away from the highway fund. Two of those pennies would become part of the Government's general revenues and could theoretically be used to aid mass transit, or indeed to bankroll any federal program. The remaining cent would go to the states, which in theory could also use the money for any purpose...
Committed Money. What about the 20-per-gal. tax that would swell the Government's general revenues? That money would not be available for mass transit, welfare, defense or anything else: it has in effect already been committed to highways. The Department of Transportation's budget projections through 1981 call for federal spending of about $2.2 billion a year-roughly the same amount provided by the trust fund today -to maintain rural, suburban and urban roads and make them safer. Moreover, under Ford's plan, mass-transit funds that used to come from the highway trust would...