Show Legal Utah Friday Jme 5 HwHinHJMr- -1 12 1971 Balanced Transportation Means Additional Hope for Big Cities Editor's Note: This is another there" says Bill R Stokes a continuing series of special general manager of the Bay ispatches examining the most Area Rapid Transit (BART) in cute problems of the nation’s San Francisco “We're designed ities and discussing possible to compete with the automo- fraction of the time it takes when the buses are bogged down In rush hour traffic Initially this will come about by designating certain lanes of existing freeways or entire streets for the exclusive use of buses Buses already have the exclusive use of two new lanes of the Shirley Highway for six miles between Washington and its Virginia suburbs In the longe range cities plan to construct busways Pittsburgh and Lob Angeles among others have this in mind Some cities such as Phoenix or Houston that have access from all sides without topographic barriers may be able to i Dlutions bile” The fl J billion BART system is putting into that competition cars designed to rival the first-dasection of airliners in comfort and appearance and Bart frequent fast service trains will have a top speed of 80 miles an hour but much more significantly a 5Hmilen-hou- r average speed That is made possible by die automated train control that paces foe trains cutting the interval between them to 90 seconds even at top speed when necessary Scant Evidence Can rapid transit take the daily commuter out of the driver’s seat? Evidence is scant since little mass transit has been built for decades But d the transit line linking Philadelphia and Lindenwdd NJ 15 miles to the southeast draws about 40 per cent of its 30000 daily from riders former auto commuters Traffic on the two major bridges between Fhildd-phi- a and southern New Jersey dropped by 2 per cent in 1980 In the last decade federal policy almost dictated that states and cities build freeways instead of public transportation While transit got only a trickle of federal dollars Congress created in 1955 a highway trust fund—bankrolled by a four-cetaxon every gallon of gasoline sold in the United States— to finance a system of interstate highways About 42J00 miles will be completed by the mid-197at a coat expected to total some $60 billion The federal government pays for 90 per cent of the cost of e limited these highways that connect major metropolitan areas and in some cases cut through the heart of cities making up part of their freeway systems Federal expenditures for highways in urban arms in 1970 will reach (2J billion most of it in the interstate program in which the federal share la 90 By FREDERICK H TREESH L'PI Senior Editar j ( In the fall of 1971 sleek sa rapid tran-wi- ll begin carrying up passengers an hour miles of track in the San Francisco Bay area Ground was broken last December for a Mrnile subway system in Washington DC Within four years it will averse the nation’s capital d link it with suburban irginia and Maryland Seattle Atlanta Baltimore land Los Angeles are likely to start construction of rapid ILrainsit rail systems in the next ew years Pittsburgh intends to instruct a “skybus"— a on concrete elevated Nxnputer-controlle- d rr rub-ter-ti- re ine one-year-- New York Boston Cleveland and Chica-- o contemplate expansion of listing rapid transit systems n the years ahead Likely Candidates Faced with mounting traffic ongestion and environmental ollution from auto exhausts nd proliferating freeways as nany as 25 major American ities are likely candidates for ome form of rapid transit in he next two decades according o federal transportation offi-ia- ls Scores of smaller cities robably will make major mprovements in their bus more than three iecades of inaction American cities are beginning to iriove toward balanced transportation high-mee- eight-passeng- two-minu-te systems— backing away from dependence on the private automobile In mass transit the United States has a long way to go to catch up with major cities elsewhere in the world The wait systems of Stockholm London Paris Mon-an- d Toronto--to name a -- are superior to anything 'ating in this country Projections of increases in ion and automobile own-ii- p contrast the federal between now and the 2000 make action on contribution to mass transit in n public transportation fiscal 1970 is (175 million— and operative The US population the federal share Is limited to of construction costs i expected to increase by one-lir- d d to be to 300 million in the next That leaves 1 years and most of the raised locally at a time when tcrease is expected to occur in cities are desperately taxing toll-fre- - K ' two-thir- ds one-thir- cities There are now more than 105 lillion motor vehicles regis-se- d in the United States ouble the number registered in 150 The US Transportation department estimates that the lumber will double again by 000 AD The urban car jopulation is growing even pore rapidly than the human wpulation of the ever more longested cities Patronage Declines While auto ownership bound-s- i upward transit patronage in he United States declined by 75 per cent in the last 25 years Public transportation since World War II has been caught of in a pervasive cycle increasing costs rising fores drinking profits- - decreasing quality and declining patronage In the last 20 years 120 transit companies have gone out of business either through bankruptcy abandonment or absorption into other companies The transit industry estimates that 00 other companies now are dose to bankruptcy IB million The or so Americans who daily depend on i public transportation are compelled to ride buses trolleys or trains that often are dirty se uncomfortable and unreliable America's love affair with the private car has resulted at least in part because practical- ly nowhere has mass transit been good enough to offer a real choice If mass transit is to be successful as it once was in America— ridership reached its zenith in the 1920s and 1930s— service will have to be as quick reliable convenient and comfortable as the public now obtains from its costly alteraa-tive-t- he automobile -t- “That’s what we're all about eliminate file need for o more four-enways alongside eight-lan- e free- thosp already borrowing and begging from state legislatures to finance existing municipal services Financial Crisis San Francisco's BART system is largely locally financed —bay area voters approved a (732 million bond issue in 1963 — but file financial crisis of cities is such that it will trim majority federal financing to build any other major urban transit systems in the figure Fortunately aome money appears to be in the offing Die Nixon administration has proposed s public trsnsporta-tio- n asristsnce set that would provide (10 billion over a period to finance transit construction and develop new modes of urban transportation on a two thbdsune third matching formula One key aspect of the assistance act is that it com provides for mitment of the (LI billion that is to become available during the first five years Formerly funding authorization had to be approved by Congress on a ar basis year-by-ye- Critics argue that the amount of money provided by the legislation Is Inadequate-f- ar las than that presently committed to highway building They urge-a- nd transportation secretary John Volpe himself favors— a transit trust fund through which a portion of the government's gasoline tax col-lections would go for transportation Nonetheless substantial money is in sight and things are -- - Breakfast Lunch Dinner Smorgasbord 6:30 Saturday Reservations for Weddings Clubs -- Parties -- Socials Call uses electrically generated and thus propel the vehicles Whether steel rail rubber on concrete or air cushion the rapid transit systems all will have In common computer train controls that will allow high speeds and abort intervals between trains not possible under manual control Bid rapid transit and commuter railroads which can use similar technology strive only one urban transportation problem-file line haul of passengers between city and suburb There are two ofisr major blema-o-ne in the suburban where most of the population growth is expected in the next two or three decades and in downtown business districts and at airports where congestion la the greatest In suburbia there is a requirement for a very flexible transportation system that ranges over an area from residence to office factory or shopping center This now commutation generally served by private suburb-to-subur- 563-581- 1 LYNCH 24 who aearty died of cancer six years ago k lost Ids leg to eaacer bet has made a rare neeveiy Dr Herbert Dletx of New Yerk City bddlag cratches whs toeatei Lyidi far oateogeaie sarcoma said there Is about a I percent survival rale la flwse cases The two are la Heustea for the Mb bteraafioual Caacer Congress UPI Teiepfaete Worldwide Relief Organization Turkey earlier in the year a small mobile scouting team would leave for the area at once Baaed on its assessment e or of needs planes would take off victims of either natural catastrophes will have forthwith to deliver medical been established With head- equipment shelter blankets quarters here in the Swiss and clothing tents and other capital it will be ready to go means of succor to the region into action immediately when Along with them would travel doctors nurses engineers comcalamity strikes For exsmple should another munications personnel mobearthquake occur with the ilised Immediately from a reserve severity of the one at Gedii in volunteer In time of war the same facilities of men and material would be called up for longer periods of service according to WASHINGTON (UPI) --A programs and proce- prescribed July draft call of 15000 men following was issued today by the dures The experts would be committed to serve for pre-Pentagon BERNE— If all goes accord-bi- g to plan by the d of this year a permanent organization for the worldwide relief of the man-mad- July Draft Call Former Chief Of Russia Dies NEW YORK u Ja thTdeUfiZtwS He had entered the hospital six weeks ago after breaking an elbow in a fell and had recuperated from cancer surge- ry ll months ago Kerensky wrote a number of historical books mostly recently “Russia and History’s Turning Point” in 1965 He lectured and taught at Stanford University Since the death of his second wife the former tydia Ellen Triton in 1944 he had been the house guest of Mrs Kenneth F Simpson widow of a New York county Republican leader He is survived by two sons Oleg and Gleb ENDS TOMORROW To facilitate this type of and furnished with official contracts arrangements several propoThis revolutionary concept is sals are under consideration based on recognition that such including recognition by the an established organisation military of time spent in would be able to act more disaster work as the equivalent swiftly and function more of service in fiie armed forces Him spontaneous effidenffir relief efforts such as hitherto XCIUSIVI ROAD snow have responded to disaster ' NOAMMMT also status Its emergencies son won would become recognised inter- detemined periods 17 nationally very much as is already that of the Red (boss fai similar situations The proposed new entity is not seeking to usurp the functions of the Red Grow but to supplement them Li fact initially at any rate the chief outlet for its resources and services would be the International Red Gross and its affiliate Swiss Red Gross both based in Geneva The new Swiss group envisages that its volimteer roster would list such experts according to availability that is whether they could be mobilised swiftly or within a period of days or even weeks Indemnities would be in line with a fixed salary scale for the time served and the type of service performed AIRPORT NOT HU UrtlSIEMUIB si mi ram £f NMUTIC1UBn MmwSSnnxp ""SKRG H TCHSraaf WORLD PREMIERE ENGAGEMENT They inherit the one place in the west everyone wants to get their hands on! Two First Use Features gg&jtwm b vehicle does not develop along a limited number of fixed g--a Undid IrMl PSnavision Technicolor Box Offffico Opons at 1 :45 MMlILUM HONCHOS - CO-HI- - T “A FUNNY TWItlFYING FIUST MMHICIMI mW4’CtuS0CiHKiNmrl dial-a-ri- FIRST LOGAN SHOWING route-provi- GENERAL ADMISSION SEATS Adulfo $200 Children under 16 (100 RESERVED SEATS Adulfo -- J (UPI) --Fbr nearly four turbulent months in 1917 Alexander Kerensky premier of Russia tried and felled to establish a democracy in his homeland The nearly forgotten contemporary of Leginative demonstration pro- nin and Stalin died Thursday at gram" for circulation systems 89 at St Luke’s Hospital in four or five areas within the To those Socialist purists who next year dreamed what the once “albert One or more of the tests man In Russia” might have might be coupled with a brought to that country had he tracked air cushion vehicle that been able to carry through his would carry passengers at high methods of needed reform he speeds to and from remained a hero As it was it was the fete of activity centers Villarreal mentioned Dulles Kerensky to live more than the Airport to Washington Kennedy last 50 years of his life in exile Airport to Manhattan downwatching helplessly as his town Newark NJ to Newark ideas of freedom and prosperity Airport and Los Angeles for all were transformed after International Airport to the San the Bolshevik Revolution into Fernando Valley as possible dictatorship and tyranny sites for the demonstration of Kerensky who had lived in the the 156mile-an-hoair cushion United States since 1940 vehicles succumbed to a heart disease Shew Tiaras Tsoight: Setters M4 Jaaes 4:154:40 Shew Tiraes Saturday: Saldiars 1:4S-5:10-- $300 and $250 Children under 16 — All Reserved Seats On Safe and J $200 Feature at 7:35- - f JS l’JEOO'5 (fapflQ FIRST RUN MCM hwnM Peter OToole-Petul- SALT PAIACI C PENNEYS l DRIVE-K- 752-103- J 2 DIG FEATURES Ae Arthur R Jjnifai Frariurtne Marring at in Ogden mm Jaaes way-enab- I am PAUL an corridors that generate heavy patronage— the characteristics of suburb to downtown lines Wiat transportation planners see as a solution to this system problem is a in which minibuses range over ding an area— not a fixed door to door service as requested by telephone The Transportation Department expects to pick a rite or several sites for tests of this beginning to happen of system in the near Aside from the completion of type figure Initially the minibuses earliest BART the the Syrian would be manually dispatched major impact on upgrading the nation's transit operations may come through more innovative use of buses Several cities are expected to begin operating buses soon on exdrive rights of them to make ling the suburb-cento- 1 city trip in a SUMMIT PARK GOLF COURSE RESTAURANT Open Daily decide which bus would fill them and in what order Dispatching a fieri of 100 minibuses to a multitude of destinations would be beyond the capability of human dispatchers Massachusetts Institute of Technology now is working on a computer prodepend on Innovative bus use gram that would handle more for mass transit for their than 100 vehicles decades to come Small to Test System medium-sisecities probably The Ford Motor Co already will be able to do likewise is testing a system it Need Rapid Transit in Mansfield Ohio developed Some form of rapid transit— Downtown or at other conthough not necessarily the areas like airports the gested wheel an steel traditional steel is for some kind iif requirement rail seems Inevitable for large — people cities such as Pittsburgh and circulation system movers horizontal or elevators Los Angeles where incoming vehicles we channeled into -t- hat will move small numbers narrow corridors by surround- of persons very quickly to very precise destinations For examing hills or bodies of water The bay area and Washington ple a commuter arriving have chosen steel wheels The downtown by rapid transit Port Authority of Allegheny might step into a capsule-lik- e County hi Pittsburgh has opted conveyor push a button and be for a “skybus”— a rubber- whisked automatically under or wheeled vehicle that operates over the city’s streets directly either individually or In trains inride his (race building At an of up to 10 cars on a concrete airport the passenger might track Pittsburgh expects to leave his car and enter the six capsule and open a ISmile line from the to button the a center to a county push indicating pwk city's in its southern suburbs by 1974 airline-perh- aps even the precise gate— he wished to reach The “skybus" will be fully In a flash he would be automated and die Port Authordelivered Now an airline envisions the ity operating passenger may have to walk as driverless cars at or more much as a half-mil-e intervals around the clock arrival or departure Rubber wheels on concrete from the gate to his parked car or a taxi technology is now in operation Montreal'! new subway Carloa C Villarreal adminissystem and in part of the Paris trator of the Urban Mass metro Administration Further in the distance Transportation the says Transportation Depart Transportation Department offi- ment has looked at more than cials see the likelihood 'of 100 for such circulaextensive use of air cushion tion proposals submitted by systems vehicles (ACVS) operating on manufacturers “Some are rails in city rapid transit overhead monorails Some are systems at speeds of 100 to 150 on a small rail Some are air miles an hour and in inter-cit- y wmHmi vehicles” he said operations at speeds of 200 to Look late Future 300 miles per hour “I can see in the future we’re The ACV would operate over to have sane remarkable a rail-- hut separated from it by going in the center of the jygtemi cushion of air-w- ith power I can see the day when dty prorided by either a Jet automobiles won’t be permit-turbofengine or a linear induction (UM) UM dial-a-b- 0s single-mind- Ceils for service would be fed into the computer and it would d nt systems After Subsequently a computer could be employed to assist the dispatcher and bi the long range a computer terminal installed in the vehicle Itself could notify the driver of his next destination by slips of paper printed out by the machine a Clark PICTURES PRESENTS JAMES STEWART HENRY FONDA "THE CHEYENNE SOCIAL CLUB SHIRLEY JONES 1 JO Children under 1 2 Free Open 1:00 Shew 9: IS SKriirifmfenli Marlowe’’! 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