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...suggest that not every state has mass transit problems [Oct. 9]? In Texas, as throughout much of the Midwest and Southwest, we still do not have severe traffic congestion between the principal population centers; thus the interstate highway program is a godsend...
...York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts divide their allocations from the Highway Trust Fund any way the people see fit. In Texas our need is for broad, fast, safe expressways. Dallas and Houston are capable of financing their own rapid transit needs when the time is ripe. RAY ZAUBER Dallas
...inflation. In an attempt to curb that inflation, the Government created the recession of 1970 and imposed the wage-price controls. More than that, the high cost of Viet Nam forced the nation to put off spending for many badly needed domestic projects?schools, hospitals, sewage plants and mass-transit systems...
...nation's last major privately owned urban-transit line, O. Roy Chalk's 1,099-bus D.C. Transit System, Inc., is about to pass into public ownership. President Nixon late last month signed a bill authorizing the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to acquire deficit-plagued D.C. Transit and three smaller suburban bus companies. W.M.A.T.A., a public agency created in 1967 to plan and develop the capital's proposed $2.98 billion rapid rail transit system, will pay at least $50 million for the package, and will spend a like amount on modernization...
...Transit's demise marks the end of an era. For nearly a century after Abraham Brower began running horse-cars along New York City's Broadway around 1830, privately owned transit systems throughout the U.S. were the only trains in town. Robber barons made fortunes on them, street traction stocks became a mainstay in widows' portfolios, and the Toonerville Trolley was enshrined on the funny pages. Then ridership began to fall off as automobiles flooded the streets, and local governments and independent transit authorities had to rush in and buy out the lines to keep them running...