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...thing, I just don't think that's the only way. I have raised the gas tax. I am not against the gas tax, but a nickel a year for a decade is too much for people who don't live in urban areas and ride mass transit...
Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority police apprehended R. Christopher Ingraham outside the Arlington subway station Thursday evening. He was found with an unlicensed loaded 38-caliber pistol, police said...
Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority police yesterday arrested a man wanted by Harvard Police and several other departments for a string of bank robberies and armed assaults...
Americans tend to react to the Japanese inroads with a surly, complex resentment, or with chauvinism, anger, chagrin, even backhanded admiration. The Los Angeles County transportation commission canceled the contracts it had granted to Sumitomo for a light-rail transit system and decided to try to get into the business of manufacturing railcars itself. Cars became the center of "Buy America" campaigns. In Warren, Ohio, an ear surgeon, Dr. William Lippy, offered the 75 employees of his clinic $400 cash if they bought a new American car. Lippy became a favorite of morning television talk shows when he invited other...
...women who sit on the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission had a simple, straightforward assignment: determine which of two competing bidders, Japan's Sumitomo Corp. or Idaho's Morrison Knudsen, would do the best job manufacturing rail cars for the county's new transit system. In mid-December the commission voted 7 to 4 to award $122 million to Sumitomo for the job. But that was before President Bush made his ill-starred trip to Tokyo to wrest trade concessions from the Japanese and a shrill chorus shouting "Buy America" began to drown out all others on the L.A. commission...