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Cambridge Bicycling Week opens officially on Saturday, with a parade beginning at 11 a. m. from Cambridge City Hall and winding its way, eventually, to the Common. Since Festival participants will be coming by all manner of transport except the automobile, the two events will naturally be coordinated. People can use the paints they bring to the Festival Plaza in the morning to paint their bicycles and then join the parade...
...hardly news to official Washington, is that the 83-year-old ICC does not exactly regulate the 17,000 railway, trucking, shipping and pipeline companies under its jurisdiction. Rather, it operates a cartel on their behalf. According to the report, the commission in effect presides over thousands of local transport monopolies, protecting inefficient carriers from competition at the expense of the public. It permits massive discrimination in rates, a practice that it was expressly set up to forbid. Where railways have no water-borne competition they have charged shippers five times as much, computed on a cents per ton-mile...
...Panic. The report recommends the abolition of the ICC, as well as the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Federal Maritime Commission, so that all three can be replaced by a single agency. Such an agency would be able to set a coherent national transportation policy, relying less on regulation and more on the free market to set rates. It would sharpen competition among companies in all forms of transport...
...march will continue to Logan Airport for a "die-in" to protest the development of the supersonic transport and the expansion of Logan. At the airport, the group plans to unload coffins and provide guerrilla theatre...
Robert Ball, TIME'S European economic correspondent, is impressed by the changes that he notices on periodic visits home. "The breakdown in street cleaning and trash removal seems symptomatic of a general decline in urban public services," he reports. "Certainly public transport in a city like New York is a disaster. The subway system is one of the dirtiest I have ever seen ?worse than London?and is by all odds the hardest to use. A visitor now is usually spared the rigors of long rail journeys because there are hardly any trains. Even airline efficiency...