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Public Transit Has to Come Back


Public Transit Has to Come Back
Janette Sadik-Khan
© Demetrius Freeman / The New York Times / Redux
When public-transportation agencies across the country saw a once-in-a-century drop in passengers as the coronavirus swept the nation, longtime transit doomsayers saw an opportunity. The pandemic, many prognosticators have suggested, foretells a permanent shift to more remote work and away from urban life. This sentiment undercut support for a transit bailout, which Congress has slow-walked during the second half of 2020.
For decades, public transportation in America has been a story of disinvestment and deferred maintenance, even in boom times. While driving has grown consistently across the U.S., transit ridership has flagged in recent years, giving evidence to critics that transit is unviable, and a waste of taxpayer dollars. Public officials feel free to slight public transportation in bizarre ways, as the Trump administration did this fall by ....

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Livingstone: Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax – gCaptain


By Captain George Livingstone – I am nearing the end of a forty-year career at sea which started as a junior officer on unlimited tonnage ships followed by several years of harbor tugboat work; a shot at being an owner/operator of tugs, a decade and a half of ocean towing and thirteen years as a ship pilot. I have been from North to South America, through the Panama Canal and across the Pacific, South China, Indian and Arabian Seas and many places in-between. 
Reverence
Any mariner who has been at sea for decades will have seen what others may consider wonders. Dolphins as far as the eye can see, greeting and guiding the bypassing ship. Hundreds of thousands of sea birds taking up every spare inch of space on an Island barely 5 miles long. Storms that made the ship want to stop and rest. Well, stop she might, but rest? No. Just teeth clenching, bone-jarring reverence for the new day. Failure, danger, disaster and even mortality lingering on the fringes of one’s though ....

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