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...also announced that the Suez Canal would be reopened June 5 - the eighth anniversary of the 1967 war in which Israel's troops reached the east bank of the waterway, resulting in its closing. Although Sadat did not indicate whether Israeli ships or cargo would be allowed to transit the canal, its reopening and the repopulating by Egyptians of towns along its banks have been awaited as concrete signs that Cairo prefers to pursue a policy of peace. He warned, however, that Egypt was capable of protecting the canal: "We possess a deterrent capacity that makes our enemy think...
Minnesota Shuttle. In the sprawling Minneapolis-St. Paul area, two major companies that are not conveniently served by mass transit have found a way to spare their employees the high cost of driving to work-and save the nation some gasoline. The firms have started their own bus services, using twelve-passenger minivans that usually go right to each worker's doorstep. General Mills, Inc. has bought 13 of the vans carrying some 150 workers daily, while 3M Co. has 65 vans that haul some 700 people. Regular workers moonlight as part-time chauffeurs; they get free rides collect...
...million worth of each developer's bonds, plus the interest on those bonds, to make them more attractive to buyers. In return, Congress required that the new towns be, in effect, giant laboratories to test new ideas in land planning, home building and design, mass-transit systems and even in government cooperation. Furthermore, the law demanded that the communities be racially and economically integrated and virtually pollution-free...
Another part of the problem is that the Nixon Administration did not live up to its side of the bargain. It withheld funds from the program, and HUD therefore gave the developers no technical assistance, no planning grants, no help in starting up schools or transit systems. In processing applications for bond guarantees or for federal subsidies for low-income housing, HUD also ensnarled the applicants in reams of unnecessary red tape. "Decisions are made, unmade and obfuscated to a degree that makes the imperial Chinese bureaucracy appear decisive and swift-moving," says Mark Freeman, executive director of the League...
...just that. By 1979 there will be six miles of exclusive bicycle lanes, either built along new urban roads or reserved on downtown streets. No other European city has gone so far, nor has any city anywhere treated a grid of bikeways as an integral part of a mass transit system. As a start, Grenoble is installing racks at bus stops, where bike owners can change from two-wheelers to four...