Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MBTA and jerk through Boston's murky underground and past the swamps of Revere Beach. After 35 minutes and two changes you emerge at Wonderland Park, a sprawling, brawling circus that is one of about 50 greyhound race tracks in the country...
...went right on dying and getting mutiiated while we sat here savoring the drawn-out luxury of changing our minds. Then we can all get back to our color TVs and walnut-paneled cabin cruisers or, if we're the artistic type, our pornographic literature and our underground movies...
...description applies just about as well to any of the nation's other three metropolitan subways. Riding underground in the U.S. is such an un pleasant experience that countless potential passengers simply avoid it, and their lost fares contribute significantly to chronic operating deficits...
...situation should soon begin to improve dramatically. Already existing underground systems are slated for ex tensive renewal. Faster and quieter passenger cars are now in the prototype stage. And the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development is dis tributing grants around the country to such cities as Seattle, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Washington- all of which are planning to build new subways- to help them finance technical studies. 80-m.p.h. Bursts. Most heartening example of what a modern subway system can look like and accomplish is Montreal's new Metro. With its quiet, rubber-wheeled cars and elegant...
Spurred on by Montreal, San Francisco is making an all-out effort to have good design the hallmark of its $1 billion-plus Bay Area Rapid Transit system, now under construction. About one-third of the 75-mile system will be underground, and Market and Mission streets are already being excavated. What San Franciscans will ride in when B.A.R.T. begins operations in 1970 is the latest in trains: streamlined, air-conditioned, 72-passenger cars that will average 50 m.p.h., with bursts up to 80 m.p.h., and will be directed by computers to run as close as 90 seconds apart during...