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Show 23 STATE AND URBAN AFFAIRS • New highways cut wide swaths across business districts, lower tax bases, destroy citizens increasingly dissatlsfled.P residential neighborhoods areas and and leave expanding airline industry, whose aviation fleet alone is expected jump from 114,000 planes in 1968 to 225,000 in 1980, is a producing need for more and larger airports, thus increasing the problems of noise emission pollution, safety, and congestion both in the air and on the ground.> • The to • a The Environmental Protection Agency states, "We have created on the automobile. The car is responsible for society dependent about 35 per cent of air If better used. pollution in transportation facilities many of are our citles.'?" made available, they will be It is clear that if a better transportation is provided, the Amer people will leave their cars to benefit from it. In Cleveland, for example, a four mile rail extension to the Hopkins International Air port is being used by 4,000 passengers daily, twice the number esti mated at the time of opening. Presently, the Cleveland Transit Authority is asking for more cars in an effort to expand the pro gram.l" • ican AMTRAK, created by Congress in the Rail Passenger Service 1970, serves the "corridors". The Metroliner between New York, Washington and Boston has been successful, but the future appears gloomy otherwise.t" • Act of The aviation industry has grown to the point that last year it 173 million commercial passengers and handled more than four billion ton miles of air frelght.t" • served over CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT "In 1969, I submitted to the Congress a proposal for establishing an Urban Mass Transportation Assistance program. The passage of that legislation helped to create a significant momentum for the rejuvenation of public transit systems." PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON Message on Transportation Funding March 18, 1971 |
