National infrastructure issues: hearing before the Subcommittee on Water Resources, Transportation, and Infrastructure of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, first session

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111. oldal - The rapid progress true science now makes occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried in a thousand years the power of man over matter. We may, perhaps, learn to deprive large masses of their gravity, and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.
3. oldal - Soviets with their large rocket engines, which gives them many months of lead-time, and recognizing the likelihood that they will exploit this lead for some time to come in still more impressive successes, we nevertheless are required to make new efforts on our own. For while we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.
41. oldal - Head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
116. oldal - ... and Limousine Commission and hopes this experiment is expanded to more areas of New York in the future. 4) Make commuter rail service more attractive. Tens of thousands of suburbanites who drive into midtown Manhattan each workday would rather take the train but can't because there are insufficient parking spaces at the suburban railroad stations, particularly along the Metro North line in Westchester County and the northern suburbs, on the LIRR and in many Connecticut townships. A crash program...
40. oldal - In the middle sixties he was director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies at MIT and Harvard.
115. oldal - ... upgraded, the City might be able to reduce bus routes, especially express bus routes, served by subway, concentrating ridership below ground and saving money. A meaningful alternative to the coercive strategy of congestion pricing would be to lower the price of mass ansit, an incentive approach.
109. oldal - They simply ride on a magnetic field. The logistics of it work just like a railway system.... But the tracks are magnetic, nothing at all like railway lines. The great thing about it is that it's all silent, and computer...
113. oldal - ... report not only will fail to solve the very real problems of traffic congestion and air pollution, they will have a highly negative impact on New York City's economy. This paradox served as the impetus for the formation of the Coalition for Improved Transportation & Air Quality. Our Coalition consists of many of the leading businesses and business organizations in the New York metropolitan region, as well as civic and community groups, labor unions, representatives of motorists, health services...
1. oldal - ... and preserving recreation resources. 2. Provision of guidelines and specifics needed in making the planning, programming, and budgeting for the suggested programs responsive to the then-current and future budget constraints and administrative action assumptions. 3. Definition of the responsibility roles of the various levels of government and the private sector in greater depth. 4. Development of programs which will be exemplary of the New Federalism — assisting the States, local governments,...
76. oldal - The above argument is based on an unchanged rate of return to private capital in the face of higher public capital accumulation. However, public capital devoted to infrastructure purposes is complementary to private capital in the production of goods and services. This implies that a rise in the public capital stock makes private capital more productive. New...