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Winding ever higher, the Cal Zephyr disappears into the dank blackness of the 6.2-mile Moffat Tunnel, which crosses the Continental Divide at an elevation of 9,239 ft. After the train emerges, H.C. Livingstone lights an after-dinner cigar and remembers aloud how he worked on the tunnel until its completion in 1928. "There were a lot of bad accidents on that job," he recalls. "In the four years it took to finish it, 81 workers were killed...
...dial tone on my telephone, one source is unavailable because his lines are down, and another is tied up with a faulty furnace." After an on-schedule, trouble-free flight into Detroit, another correspondent was imprisoned aboard for 45 minutes because someone forgot to move an exit tunnel to the plane...
...Administration and his party with the concept of improving the quality of American life. There is no more practical goal for any President. But the term suggests far more than Nixon's limited context allows. Granted that ecological concerns are of the highest urgency, only a case of tunnel vision would confine "quality" to anti-pollution measures. If "the quality of life" can actually become a goal that the government and the people consider primary, then nothing short of a reordering of national priorities is required-and political liberties are high on the list of needed reforms...
...traffic on the bridge-tunnel so far below predictions? One reason is that improvements on the feeder highways to the north and south have fallen behind schedule. Moreover, a competitive inland route, the John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway, was finished ahead of time and has siphoned off much long-distance traffic. The original traffic projections also underestimated the increasing use of air travel...
Traffic rose a heartening 7% during 1969, but officials figure that the bridge-tunnel will not start to break even for another decade. An average of 105,518 cars, trucks and buses a month have been using the span, mostly on weekends. On weekdays, the roadways of the superspan are often deserted-except for clusters of seagulls...