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...inexorable advance of highways into the countryside will slow, and cars may even be banned in some places. The Highway Trust Fund, which has disbursed some $58 billion over the past two decades, was tapped by Congress for mass transit money this year for the first time. If gasoline remains scarce, states that depend on fuel taxes to fund local highway construction may end up with less money than projected; some planned highways may never be built. The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed banning cars from certain downtown business districts by 1977; many city dwellers, including not a few local...
...Public transportation will experience a revival, but perhaps not in the form that many people expect. Most discussion has focused on improving mass transit, such as subways and commuter rail lines. Auto executives argue that that is only a small part of the answer; the public-transportation future, in their view, belongs...
...Where the hell is a better transit system for a city of 200,000 than a first-class bus system?"asks GM's Gerstenberg. The car manufacturers' self-interest is obvious?they are the big busmakers?but they have some convincing statistics. The auto has brought about such a gigantic demographic dispersion that only rubber wheels can effectively tie a metropolitan area together...
...purchases above that basic limit. The plan has some advantages over outright rationing. It would assure everyone of a basic gasoline supply while permitting people to choose freely how much they really wanted to drive. It would also produce new Government revenues that could be used to fund mass transit...
Under Cousins, committee chairmen included the president of one of Atlanta's largest banks, the chairman of its rapid transit system, the president of its chamber of commerce, the country's number-one Ford dealer and several retired public servants. The chairman of the ministers' council was the pastor of the church where numerous Atlanta political and civic leaders do their praying...