Table of Contents
Contributors
Alan Balfour; Joel Barna; Geoffrey Brune; John Kaliski; William Howze; Barbara Koerble; Rafael Longoria; Elysabeth Yates-Burns McKee; Deborah Morris; Patrick Peters; William F. Stern; Rives Taylor; and Bruce C . Webb.
Cite 25
Fall 1990
Editor’s Note
Cite 25 includes a range of topics. William F. Stern. and Bruce C. Webb served as Co-Chairmen and Editors. The following is a selection from Webb's contribution, "METRO's Park-and-Rices: Busing up to Rail":
Something there is that doesn't love the bus. Workhorses of most metropolitan transit systems, they appear as prosaic. Third World versions of public transportation; representing a relatively small investment and low public commitment to permanence, they also rarely contributemuch to a city's picture of itself (London's distinctive red double-deckers are the exception). Riding the bus can be a real slice-of-life experience, in a public piazza on wheels where the inquiring demographer can pick up snippets of conversation on everything from politics, sports, and the weather to personal fortunes and misfortunes above the grunting, chugging, jangling background of bus noises. I heard one man hold forth on umbrellas from his side scat .it the front, talking nonstop to just about anyone who would listen. When one listener got off, he picked up the same conversation with the next passenger who climbed on. He claimed there was a room lull nl lost umbrellas somewhere in the Metro organization - umbrellas left behind on the Metro buses. "They say you can go there," he continued, using that tone of voice people use when they're sharing a secret, "and if you can prove you're poor, they'll give you one free." One of the passengers asked the driver if this was true. The bus driver said he didn't know, but it wouldn't surprise him.