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...higher taxes and higher spending have brought little if any improvement in public services. In many cases, the nation's streets are dirtier, its mass transit more decrepit, its public hospitals more understaffed, its streets more crime-ridden today than in decades. The knowledge that they are paying more and more for less and less service has bred in many citizens a suspicion that they are being cheated, and has fanned a mood of rebellion...
WHEN YOU shorten a play it's only fair that you shorten its name. America is one half the title of Jean-Claude Van Itallie's satire on the land of the free that in transit to Harvard's Loeb Experimental Theater lost its last Hurrah. While this might just look like fanatic adherence to the credo of truth-in-advertising by an over-conscientious Harvard producer, it is actually the author's stipulation that when his three one-act satires travel separately they must do so under assumed names. This production--including the original's two longer one-acts...
Regina's "Telebus" system, begun as an experiment six months ago, has proven to be a remarkable success. It is not only convenient for the 18,000 residents in the 3-sq.-mi. district now served by Telebuses but also financially beneficial for the city transit system, which needs more passengers to cut its deficit. During a particularly bitter cold snap early in January, the city's eleven 42-passenger Telebuses responded to an average of 2,000 calls per day. Cost of the service: 35?, only a dime more than the standard fare...
...morning commuters, the transit system guarantees that a Telebus will arrive within 15 minutes after a call. The bus quickly collects a full load of south-side passengers and drops them off at a comfortable waiting room, where regular buses pick them up for the ride to Regina's downtown area. In the evening, the Telebuses pick up returning workers at the waiting rooms and deposit them at their doorsteps...
...since last October. The Ford Motor Co. planned and helped to inaugurate phone-bus systems in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Columbus, Ohio. Consultants from M.I.T. helped to set up another in Batavia, N.Y. But none of the U.S. experiments compares in size to the system in Regina, where Transit Manager Wally Atkinson expects to make Telebuses available to 60,000 citizens by the end of the year and to provide citywide coverage...