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#18 The Common And, Behind It, The Landscaped Public Gardens Provide Rest And Recreation In Metropolitan Boston. The Young Lady Is Amplifying The Sun's Rays To Speed A Suntan, April 1973 Image ...
Pages in category "1970s in transport" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bike boom; F. Facansa; T.
Pages in category "1970 in transport" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
June 28 – The Chicago Urban Transportation District is created by local referendum in downtown Chicago to finance and build the 1968 Loop and Distributor Subway project as recommended by the Chicago Central Area Transit Planning Study.
In 1970, UMTA felt it was time to move from experiments to prototype installations, and arranged funding for three major installations. One of these would emerge as the Vought Airtrans , another as the Morgantown PRT , and finally the third block of funds provided four companies $1.5 million each to bring their AGT developments to Transpo '72.
#1502, now in the museum fleet of the MTA A mobile classroom in lower Manhattan in February 1990. New York Bus Service was a private bus company in New York City. Originally a school bus company founded in the mid-1940s, it was known for providing express bus service between Midtown Manhattan and eastern sections of the Bronx from 1970 until July 1, 2005, when the city (MTA) assumed the ...
The PTC was transferred from private to public ownership on September 30, 1968, when SEPTA (formed in 1964) took it over. [ 5 ] Of more than 300 trolley bus systems in operation worldwide (as of 2011), [ 7 ] Philadelphia's is the second-oldest, exceeded in longevity only by that of Shanghai , China [ 3 ] [ 4 ] (in operation since 1914). [ 1 ]
The history of the Los Angeles Metro Rail and Busway system begins in the early 1970s, when the traffic-choked region began planning a rapid transit system. The first dedicated busway opened along I-10 in 1973, and the region's first light rail line, the Blue Line (now the A Line) opened in 1990.