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...once the building is occupied, Ahern warns that the functional impact of the building will then surface. "It will be fine aesthetically and economically, bringing workers into the city, but the building will present a transportation problem." Ahern cites increasing traffic, plus an overburdened transit system as possible outgrowths of the Hancock Tower occupancy...
There is one significant difference between Hartman and his classmates. While it is not unusual for students to feel that they are in the dark during their difficult transit through medical school, that is literally true for Hartman. He is blind-the first sightless student to be accepted by a medical school in this century. Nonetheless, he is in the top quarter of his class...
...with Arab oil flowing again, there are many signs that Americans are resuming their old profligate use of energy. Weekend traffic is again jamming highways from New Jersey to California, and people are gradually forgoing mass transit and commuting to work by car. The nationwide 55-m.p.h. speed limit is being more and more ignored. While many householders continue to douse lights in empty rooms, outdoor signs in Las Vegas, Manhattan and other places are again blazing wastefully. New Jersey and Virginia have dropped state gasoline-rationing plans, and President Nixon has told motorists that there is no longer...
...Americans pay [for] the political activities of individuals and parties with which they might totally disagree." This argument overlooks the fact that electing public officials is a public function and that millions of taxpayers already support activities with which they may totally disagree: farmers help pay for mass-transit systems, city dwellers for milk subsidies, pacifists for defense budgets...
Meantime, ridership on mass transit is dropping. After weeks of increased patronage, revenues have begun to dip on Boston's rail and bus systems. In San Francisco, a 5% decline in transit customers has been matched by an increase in auto traffic on the Bay and Golden Gate bridges. The same pattern holds for the Metro in Washington, B.C., where the number of bus riders is steadily dwindling from a peak of 2.6 million passengers a week at the height of the energy shortage in March. Another gas-saving alternative-car pooling-has caught on only in Washington...