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Third Rail Rapid Transit Magazine #6 1976 March (Oct-Dec ’75) Light Rail Transit
Third Rail Rapid Transit Magazine #6 1976 March (Oct-Dec 75) Light Rail Transit OH
The Magazine of Rapid Transit. The Third Rail is Published quarterly.
COVER STORY: Light Rail Transit in Dayton, Ohio is the proposition put forward on the cover of a DART publicity piece. "?" is UMTA's opposition to a plan they never madethwarting (?) what may be a model for future transit in America's
smaller cities.Front Cover Graphic
EDITORIALS: Does DART's Rejection Signal Deeper UMTA Opposition to Rail Transit? and What Happens When the
"Gypsies" Come to Townpp. 63-64
TMB looks up from his Political Underground and declares No Detente with the
Concorde.p. 65
LIGHT RAIL: Months of waiting culminate in a Light Rail Policy Statement from UMTA, but Dayton, Ohio, finds its DART system out in the cold. Dayton, with a metro population of less than a million, hopes to lead the U.S. in the development of light rail transit. p.66-68
TECHNOLOGY CAPERS: Is Aerospace Souring on the Rapid Transit Market, or
Vice Versa? and San Francisco and Boston begin to grow impatient waiting for
their new Boeing SLRVs.p. 69
NEWSWATCH: Chicago Crash Investigated; Toronto Helps Philadelphia while it looks forward to its first new LRVs; Vancouver Moves Haltingly into the Light Rail Arena; New York to Cut Rapid Transit Service (again) while the City's "Forgotten Borough" Wonders
Where Its Service Wentp. 69-71
IN BRIEF: Crumbling Highways; Reined-In Russians (p. 65); El to be Shifted; Flywheels Spin; Light Rail Planned; and
BART Honored.p. 71
CRISIS: A late-night carbarn fire causes serious disruption of light rapid transit service in Philadelphia. Buses patch in the gaps as SEPTA scours the transit market for replacements (Toronto may help, p. 70). The disaster, destroying nearly a quarter of the active PCC fleet, seems destined to reactivate the City's
lagging LRT planning.p. 72
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