Word: transitions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dixon emphasizes "Common Sense for a Change" and a practical moderate agenda; also a municipal environmental health policy, more efficient transit service; cites "the need for a partnership for jobs and economic development between business, higher education, government, and neighborhoods...
...after Congressman Ted Weiss, a Manhattan Democrat, labeled Westway "a real estate boondoggle posing as a highway." New York officials said they would seek to trade in $1.7 billion in federal commitments to Westway for money to build a more modest highway and improve the city's decrepit mass-transit system...
...lack of coverage. In Blue Island (pop. 22,000), a Chicago suburb, citizens held a noisy meeting last month to debate a 30% tax increase. Reason: the city's insurance premiums had jumped from $175,000 to $435,000 in one year. In July the Southern California Rapid Transit District came within nine hours of idling its 2,500 buses for lack of insurance. The annual premium rose from $67,000 to $3.2 million...
...sidewalk epiphany. "Two men were arguing," he recalls. "One just straight up and shot the other. It dawned on me how they got killed by just talking. And that scared me. I just had to get away from that." Now Brinston is doing landscaping and maintenance work for A.C. Transit, the East Bay bus system...
...with the problem. A few imaginative efforts are being made at the local or community level. In Oakland, officials have persuaded some youths to exchange guns and knives for brooms and brushes. Four years ago, Robert J. Shamoon, the tough-talking assistant operations manager of the East Bay Area transit system, had had enough of local gangs who defaced his buses on the outside and turned them into anxious prisons on the inside. He announced that if there was a reduction in vandalism and graffiti, he would use the money saved to create jobs for those who had been doing...