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...million an acre paid for a midtown block at the same time) that high-rise construction is surely not, for once, the only practical option. But the pair will take the easy way out, designing housing wholesale. What about all the new passengers added to overburdened mass transit? Says Trump airily: "We'll renovate a couple of subway stations, et cetera, et cetera." Planners of housing for the poor realized years ago that isolated high-rise flats foster a dangerous anomie. Condo buyers may be unlikely to join street gangs, but Television City will be an interesting experiment: extreme swank...
...Mover, originally planned to open this month, is behind schedule, over budget, shoddily built and, critics say, unnecessary. Many Detroiters, whose only other public transportation is a creaky bus system, scorn the People Mover as "a rich folks' roller coaster." Says Ralph Stanley, the Reagan Administration's top mass-transit official: "It could be the nation's least cost-effective transit project in the last 20 years...
...Motor City, where the car is king, has steered away from any large-scale mass transit since the Michigan legislature unsuccessfully proposed a subway in 1905. But in 1982, after Congress overrode Reagan Administration objections, both Detroit and Miami were given a green light to begin work on People Movers. The Detroit project, 80% federally funded, is one of the first U.S. tests for the innovative train, which works something like a horizontal elevator, the cars powered by electromagnetic thrust. Originally, Detroit planners hoped the People Mover would link up with a proposed area-wide light-rail commuter system. Although...
...system's dozen cars, each with a capacity of 100 passengers, will never carry enough riders to justify the expense. Official estimates for the number of daily riders (at 40¢ to 50¢ a trip) have dropped from 70,000 to 40,000, while Stanley, who heads the Urban Mass Transit Administration in Washington, foresees no more than...
...Harvard report’s central recommendations is to remove the parallel parking on North Harvard Street, enlarging the road to accommodate separate bike and transit lanes...