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They had come to watch President Gerald Ford sign an $11.8 billion mass-transportation bill. The money, which will be distributed to cities and states over the next six years, is the largest federal subsidy ever approved for mass transit and the first to include funds for the day-to-day operations of urban rail, bus and subway systems...
...billion set aside by Congress for operating subsidies will help compensate hard-pressed metropolitan transit systems for rising labor, energy and maintenance costs, thus enabling them to hold the line on fares. After the signing, for example, New York City Mayor Abraham Beame predicted that New York City would now be able to keep its 350 bus and subway fare at least through 1975. Low fares, along with the improvements in equipment and service that the bill's remaining $7.8 billion will bring, should encourage urban Americans to use mass transit instead of relying so heavily on autos...
Meanwhile, strike fever seems to be spreading. Some 16,000 members of the Amalgamated Transit Union last week struck Greyhound bus lines. The union seeks an increase of 600 an hour above the current average wage of $5.76. Many of Greyhound's passengers were left stranded by the strike. Countless students and other travelers heading home for Thanksgiving found it hard to find space on crowded trains, planes, and nonstriking bus lines...
...market. This effort has been only partially successful, for American firms are losing international ground to newer, more dynamic companies like Nissan and Volkswagen. As American automakers explore abroad, they ignore their domestic obligations: urban small-car designs are pigeon-holed and monstrous recreational vehicles are forced forward; mass transit is suppressed while car use becomes more expensive and unpleasant; pollution control is ignored until the government threatens fines or hints factory shutdowns...
Ronan held, moreover, public posts that put him in charge of supervising transportation in the state. But Rocky insisted that Ronan was answerable to him, gifts or not. In fact, he had placed Ronan on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to undertake a Rockefeller policy of aiding mass transit. Warming to the subject, Rocky declared: "Ronan had the guts, the balls," to fight for mass transit. Then he apologized for his language. Said Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr.: "You've topped J.P. Morgan for color...