Word: transition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study currently under review by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) proposes a simple solution to the problem--building a fifth line on the outskirts of the city to connect outlying areas. Similar proposals for a "circumferential" transit route have been debated in Boston since...
...19th century hero of this seafaring novel finally completes a laborious journey from England to New South Wales. In transit, Edmund Talbot grows weary of "this seemingly endless voyage"; safely ashore at Sydney Cove, he marvels that he has been at sea for nearly a year. In fact, the trip has taken much longer than that. William Golding first shoved Talbot off dry land in Rites of Passage (1980), which went on to win the Booker Prize, Britain's most coveted award for fiction. After receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, the author got back to Talbot...
Living at Harvard, where everything seems to be within walking distance, I had forgotten how dependent our society is on mass transit. This is especially true in New York, where everybody commutes...
Long Islanders still shudder when the words LIRR and strike are mentioned in the same sentence. It's hard to imagine that this society of commuters would ever again endure the inconvenience of a transit strike. Suburban stock brokers and investment bankers might form a commuters' union and stage a counterstrike. I can imagine their slogans--"Commuters of the world unite! Break yours chains! Fight for your transit rights!" Conservative Yuppies would be transormed into radical revolutionaries...
...interesting to consider: in an age in which we stress mass transit as the best alternative to environmentally destructive car exhaust, there are very few safeguards against widespread transportation paralysis...