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Grave Questions. Unquestionably, rationing would generate wide spread inequities. Lower-income motorists would be penalized because they tend to drive inefficient old cars that get poor gasoline mileage. Residents of rural and suburban areas would suffer more than city dwellers, because they are not served by adequate mass transit systems. A network of local rationing boards would probably be created to deal with hardship claims. But there would be much bureaucratic adjudication of minute details of Americans' private and business lives. By FEA'S estimate, rationing would require the creation of a massive bureaucracy of as many...
...People were paying 10 cents and parking all day while taking the rapid transit into Boston," he added. "The police couldn't possibly get around to checking every meter, so they are getting away with...
...Public Transit...
...rapid transit stations at Harvard Square (Red Line) is the third busiest in the entire system. However, the number of boarders is below the capacity of the station. The operating hours and schedules of the fixed rail Red Line, are efficient enough to meet the present and future demands of Cambridge and its surrounding areas...
...City building projects are almost at a standstill as soaring costs far outstrip targeted estimates. Rising costs have forced San Francisco to postpone indefinitely construction of an 18,000-seat sports arena. The Washington, D.C., rapid-transit system, budgeted at $2.5 billion five years ago, will cost at least $4.5 billion, perhaps $6 billion, before it is fully completed in 1981. Prices of goods that cities buy are also steep. Environmental and transportation equipment was exhibited for the officials in Houston. But reaction to items like a 19-seat minibus was tempered: mayors kicked the tires and winced...