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There is only so much room on city streets, as any observer in downtown Boston or Harvard Square at five o'clock knows. The various forms of mass transit--subways, elevateds, buses, and commuter trains--take up far less space per passenger than do private automobiles. Yet fewer and fewer people use mass transit systems each year, while the number of cars in use has increased more than 50 per cent in the last ten years...
Most urban transit corporations, like the MTA and the New Haven Railroad, operate at huge losses and cannot afford the new facilities, the equipment and the more frequent schedules needed to attract more passengers. Consequently, revenue--and the level of equipment and service--continue to fall. The MTA carries far fewer people today than when it was formed in 1947, and it had a deficit last year of sixteen million dollars; the plight of the New Haven's commuter lines is well-known...
...people"-but that was the least of Lenny's worries. Back home, he was booked solid. Appealing a one-year jail sentence for an obscenity conviction in Chicago, he faced a similar charge in California, plus two narcotics raps. Wherever he roamed, Lenny seemed to be in sick transit...
...pussy-footing: "I just did not go along with Clark on the rules fight." The bills Ribicoff has introduced are not radical, but are simply mop-ups on his work in HEW. He hasn't introduced anything specifically to help Connecticut, although he considers the recently passed Mass Transit Bill to be an answer to his campaign promise to help the Fairfield County commuters. On the Finance Committee, he considers himself a representative of New England, not just Connecticut. Connecticut "likes a Senator with the big picture," he says...
...even with better space vehicles, travel will never be cheap; certainly the over-crowding of the earth cannot be significantly alleviated in this way. Furthermore, the limitation imposed by the speed of light itself means that communication, even between planets, will be difficult. There will be a three minute transit time for messages from Mars to the Earth; clearly a conversation in the earthly sense is impossible. Even between the earth and nearby moon, there will be a two and a half-second delay. At interstellar distances, communications will require years to reach their destinations. Travel will be infinitely slower...