Word: transition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even if Transrapid is not awarded the casino-express contract, maglev technology is already on its way to the U.S. Magnetic Transit of America, a subsidiary of West Germany's Daimler-Benz, broke ground in downtown Las Vegas last January for a slower-speed -- 50 m.p.h. -- maglev urban-transit system. Completion of the initial 1.3-mile segment of the Las Vegas People Mover is planned for 1991 -- perhaps a good year for dating the beginning of the maglev...
...some fundamental ways skywalks are more perniciously anti-urban than the shopping malls they are intended to compete against. Good malls, like city streets, encourage lingering, serendipity; skywalks, however, are pedestrian freeways, streets distilled to the strictly utilitarian function of providing transit from Point X to Point Y, no detours allowed. In skywalks, there is none of the traditional city's invigorating mix of commerce and leisure, businesspeople and loiterers. "The street is the way of democracy," says Richard Maschal, architecture critic for the Charlotte Observer. "The Overstreet Mall system creates a biracial society." Sam Bass Warner Jr., a Boston...
Instead of serving the poor communities that badly need a cheap form of public transportation, Washington's rapid transit system is primarily built for the city's plethora of government bureaucrats, lawyers and lobbyists...
Time for work. Low scudding clouds threatened the immediate appearance of Jupiter Pluvius, so I took the subway. New Yorkers commonly describe a ride on their beloved rapid-transit system as a journey through Hades, and mine this day was no exception. Heading downtown, I boarded one of the system's older trains -- creaking, crotchety and covered with indescribable graffiti. I looked closer at one cluster of squiggles, spray-painted by the ubiquitous Taki 183. Was it . . .? Could it be . . .? Yes, there in Babylonian script were the opening words of the Gilgamesh Epic...
...York, justice continues to be uneven. One need simply read the newspapers to see cases where Blacks have not received justice in cases involving whites. A perfect example is the case of Michael Stewart, a Black subway graffiti-artist who died of a beating given by Transit police after he was arrested...