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Their brethren in other major cities may still suffer from the abuse of frustrated passengers, but in Pittsburgh, bus drivers are being greeted by cheers and even occasional kisses. As part of an imaginative plan to jazz up its service, the Pittsburgh transit authority has set loose in the streets a bus known as the Wild Card. Passengers climbing aboard discover that the coin box is covered by a leather bag decorated with playing cards. The ride is on the house...
Sargent is running on his record, and making no promises about the future. He says he has improved mass transit, liberalized penal institutions and increased care for the elderly...
Robert Shaw and Martin Balsam play the leading hijackers; Walter Matthau is a lieutenant in the Transit Police who helps undo them. Each of these gentlemen - indeed, the entire cast - at tacks his role by affecting the slightly petulant boredom of a commuter with nothing to read. They seem to rouse themselves only for the wisecracks...
...together and make Lima better - without any new taxes." In surprisingly short order, Mayor Moyer has done just that. He has started a new, moneymaking transit system with five buses complete with carpeting and ste reo. He has arranged for welfare recipients to clean streets and plant shrubs, ivy and trees. He has encouraged the Neighborhood Youth Corps to patch up the old train station, thereby enabling Amtrak to reopen it for passenger ser vice a year ahead of schedule...
...urban highways and a boost to public transit...