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...Extension of the MBTA subway lime out to Fresh Pond or another point near Alewife Brook Parkway, Traffic studies--largely complete--show that most Mass Ave traffic has at least one endpoint in Cambridge, making extended rapid transit feasible...
...defense. Beyond this, both pledge to put the money saved on defence to other use. McGovern has proposed a radical new tax program, closing loopholes and imposing a heavy inheritance tax. which would add another $120 billion in revenue to put into vast government-sponsored programs in housing, mass transit and environmental cleanup. This would also allow for large increases in social security and a $1000 minimum annual income for everyone in the country Chisholm represents the communality of interests among block and white working classes and she sees civil rights legislation that is currently unenforced as part...
...Makeup. Last week, in a surprise move, Transportation Secretary John Volpe proposed making Highway Trust Fund money available for mass transit. The fund now provides about $5 billion a year for federal roads. Under Volpe's plan, the Government would allow $1 billion of this to be spent on mass transit in 1974, $1.85 billion in fiscal 1975 and $2.25 billion in subsequent years. Chances of winning congressional approval this year appear dim, but it is important that the Nixon Administration is striving to spread the money around, and it seems inevitable that just that will be done some...
Call to Conserve. Chiefs of General Motors and Ford favor diverting at least some of the Highway Trust Fund to subsidize buses and other mass-transit systems that use highways, but not rail transit projects. Ford is promoting a high-speed-bus system, based on a network of guideways built over existing highways that use computer-controlled, Ford-built mini buses capable of carrying ten passengers. The company is building an experimental two-station system for Transpo 72 at Dulles Airport outside Washington...
Officers of oil companies-notably Jersey Standard and Mobil-argue that some trust-fund money should be spent on rail as well as highway transit projects. These executives are worried about a future shortage of oil, which they want to conserve. It is remarkable that some top businessmen are contemplating means to reduce demand for their basic product. Even more remarkable, this rejiggering of the oilmen's past philosophy puts them in the same camp as their most outspoken critics-the environmentalists...