Word: transitional
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority added cops to the subway beats in the name of community policing...
...Senior Center, John Silvestro, president of LHS, entered memory-card information into a computer running the UNIX operating system. Silvestro said the Election Commission had anticipated entering the ballot information sooner, but transit delays between polling stations and the center resulted in the delay...
...Ross is the only roadie. As a nascent label, Nice Records can't afford a palatial tour bus. They drive around the country in a comfortable RV that was parked around the block from the Middle East. The Kelley Deal 6000 planned on lodging there for the night. In transit, they usually park at a truck stop. Kelley affectionately calls it a "mobile living room...
...Metropolitan Transportation Commission, a regional planning agency. Around the country, about 70% of all workers get to the job driving alone in a car. In San Francisco, it's only 38%. Heminger points out that San Francisco lost two freeways in the 1989 earthquake and has a rusting public-transit system. But as it becomes more obvious that mass transit is the way to relieve pollution and traffic, the Federal and state governments often respond with a collective "Drop dead!" Heminger says the best hope is to raise money through local increases in the gas tax or other levies. Honk...
Here's a better plan: San Francisco loves to congratulate itself on how progressive it is, so how about if Mayor Brown brokers a deal to address one of the great transit insanities of the universe? It costs $1 round trip to drive into San Francisco and back on the Bay Bridge but $4 and up to take Bay Area Rapid Transit. Beginning next week, every car that crosses the bridge with a lone driver should be charged $4; with two people in the car, $3; with three people, $2; and with four people, $1. With less traffic, a bridge...