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...voters of Los Angeles will make a very expensive decision at the polls this fall. Should they authorize a special new 1% sales tax to subsidize bus fares and finance a brand-new $8 billion mass-transit system? Or should they turn down the proposition and face the unpleasant prospect of eventual curbs on the use of private cars-a drastic turn-away from the freewheeling California lifestyle...
...part of 700 tons of noxious chemicals into the atmosphere. To protect the public's health from that heady mix of poisons, the Federal Clean Air Act of 1970 set firm deadlines for air quality to be improved to specific minimum standards. In Los Angeles' case, mass transit would presumably help by enticing commuters out of their cars. But the Southern California Association of Governments, which represents the 126 cities and counties stewing in the bowl of ambient filth known as the Los Angeles air basin, hoped to find another alternative. It turned to the Rand Corp...
...would building the proposed mass-transit system accomplish much; at best, says Rand, going that route would yield "insignificant further improvements in air quality...
...incisive-he is one of extraordinary breadth. His impulse is expansionist: where there is a need, fill it-and the sooner the better. Let routine administrators tidy up afterward. Rockefeller has exuberantly strewn New York State with his political largesse. Most of it has been beneficent (schools, hospitals, mass transit, antipollution facilities), but some has been dubious (his massive $1 billion concrete and marble Albany mall, which will rehouse much of the state government when it is completed hi 1975-five years late). To critics of the mall, who have labeled it "instant Stonehenge," Rocky replies: "Mean structures breed small...
...billion when he took office to $8.6 billion when he left, he devised a novel way of paying for his programs. Rather than going to the balky state legislature or to the voters, who might turn him down, he set up a host of quasi-independent agencies-the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the Urban Development Corporation, the Housing Finance Agency-that issued bonds on their own initiative and repaid them with fees collected from users of the facilities that were constructed. "The greatest system ever invented!" he exclaimed...