Word: transits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Corrupt local officials are putting a crimp in U.S. economic aid. Food for the peasants is spirited away and sold by local chieftains; other aid vanishes in transit to the provinces...
...like a bristling World War II sea mine, shoots jets 100 ft. into the air, and presents 20-minute programs of changing shapes, colors and music. Also to be preserved after the fair: an 800-seat theater, a 5,500-seat arena for circuses and ice shows, a monorail transit system linking the whole fair-civic center to the heart of the city...
...m.p.h. The touted freeways designed to aid entrance to and exit from the city are already outgrown, will reach their peak in 1968-eleven years before the entire 1049-mile system will be completed. Most cities have seen their commuter lines dwindle, and lean heavily on inadequate transit systems. Says Boston's Mayor Collins: "If we were to adapt an urban civilization to everybody who's lazy enough to get out of the house right into his car, drive to the office and want to park near it, you'd have nothing in city after city...
Weinberg halved the payroll and chopped services, but Scranton Transit now rides in the black, and a union man says grudgingly, "That guy kept 125 jobs that might have been lost." Then he bought control of Honolulu Transit, used Honolulu Transit assets to buy Dallas Transit, and Dallas Transit money to buy control of Fifth Avenue Coach...
Down with Riders. Weinberg's swashbuckling tactics can hardly be regarded as a responsible answer to the woes of transit companies. He sets up no depreciation fund to buy new equipment, and the number of riders on his buses is skidding fast. His critics, who are many, charge that he intends to eventually liquidate his bus lines and keep only the valuable real estate holdings of his companies. Weinberg insists that he believes in providing only as much bus service as people are willing to pay for, a simple proposition that infuriates politicians who may be anxious to keep...