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...Atlanta Transit System switched from corner-to-corner bus lines to fast, limited runs, last year netted $87,197 in profits...
...million. Yet their daily cycle from home to work accounts for a larger volume of passenger traffic than any other type of weekday travel. Six million of them get to work and back home by auto, 450,000 by train, 3,550,000 by bus, subway or rapid transit. Others ingeniously make the trip by airplane, helicopter, bicycle, motor scooter, powerboat and, in the case of one hardy California commuter, by kayak...
...schemes as the monorail or the far-fetched "pneumatic tube for people." What the nation's big cities need, if they are not to become monstrous masses of immovable autos, is better, more efficient public transportation. Traffic experts want to see the train, the bus and the rapid-transit system take their rightful place alongside the auto as part of a coordinated transportation system. In order to compete effectively, the railroads need tax equality and freedom from excessive regulation. The ICC has already come out in favor of tax relief, and Congress recently made it easier for the rails...
...good will. Says the Burlington's president, Harry Murphy: "We've got to serve the commuters, so I believe we should give them the best service we can possibly afford." Quiet, Please. Because they have to serve the commuter-like it or not-other railroads and transit systems, along with cities, are also trying to find ways to do the job right. The Pennsylvania and Reading railroads and the city of Philadelphia are cooperating in "Operation Northwest," in which the railroads have stepped up service and lowered fares, and issue transfers for the city's transit system...
...Francisco has formed the Bay Area Rapid Transit District to set up a regional network of 70 m.p.h. rapid-transit trains that, when completed in 1965, will get commuters from any one station to any other in less than an hour. What spurred it on was a voter outcry against the blight on the city's beauty caused by superhighways. The state legislature decided that the motorist must help pay for the new system, will nick him for $115 million in traffic tolls to construct a rapid-transit tube under San Francisco...