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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1959)
f More Efficient Transit System Urged To Take Place of Concrete Freeways Washington - (CPl - The na tion's urban areas are slowly being strangled by concrete freeways, according to two en thusiasts for electric rapid transit systems. - Hilliard H. Goodman, ex ecutive vice president of the Citizen Transit Improvement association, contends that many spanking-new suburban freeways being built today "are obsolete the minute they are opened." More Economical Syitem . - Goodman and Ord Alexan der, assistant engineering di rector of the National Coal association, claim the nation's cities should invest their time and money in "more economi cal and efficient" rapid tran sit systems. The two men are leaders in a campaign to build an elec tric rapid transit system here. Both say the transit dilem ma facing the nation's capital is typical in most American Cities seeking ways to reduce the travel time of suburban dwellers who work in town. They conceded that, the automobile is still an impor tant factor in inter-city and interstate transportation, but maintain that - as a "mass transportation vehicle," it has no future. "More highways mean more cart which present a bigger storage problem as the num ber continues to grow each year until the saturation point is reached, Alexander said. "What then? Do we put the buildings on stilts and pave the entire city?" Reasons Listed Goodman and Alexander cited these as "just a few" of the reasons why they feel electric transit is .better than the freeway in solving the problem of suburban traffic: The whooping Crane is. in creasing in numbers, reports the National Geographich So ciety. There are now at least 39 of them. fag1 ' "fmX MIAMI'S GOLD COAST - The luxury hotels along Miami Beach's Gold Coast seem to shimmer in the sunlight in this aerial photo. The moon over, Miami and the traffic jams are about the only things that have escaped change in the "magic city." (UPI Telephoto) Miami People Try To Solve Problems Created by Traffic Miami (UPD-The moon over Miami and the traffic jams are about the only things that have escaped change in this "m a g i c city" on Florida's Gold Coast. The people are trying to get something done about the traffic. There is little that can be done about the moon or the balmy climate, although some promoters would like to try. The roads', buildings, the airport, beaches, the govern ment, the population itself all have changed since yes terday, last week, or any time interval by wnich you care to measure. . The change hasn't been fast enough, though, for the work er trying to drive from south Dade County to the huge Mi- ami International Airport at school starting time. Still on Boards Thousands of dollars have gone into surveys but cross- town expressways still are on the drawing board - although one has been started from the airport to Miami Beach. Seen from the air at night, the Dade County metropolis of 850,000 residents with fa cilities to handle a million visitors at a time, glitters like a belt of many jewels. It is 20 miles wide between sea and swampland The visitor by air hustles through one of six half-mile fingers leading from the air planes, gingerly climbs aboard an escalator that goes so fast it terrifies old ladies and finds himself inside the new $22,000,000 terminal. A five storyhotel, triple sound proof, rises atop the terminal. Heading toward Miami Beach, a taxi whisks through the bluish glare of the air port entrance maze. The First National Bank and DuPont Plaza are new additions to the Miami waterfront skyline. Several other old landmark buildings have bright new ex teriors. New Span Being- Built Crossing Biscayne Bay, the new 36th st. Causeway rises to the north. To the south a new span is being built for the MacArthur Causeway on the Miami side. There is no new "this year's hotel" at Miami Beach. Space is so tight that the Fountain bleau has been in a long has sle with the Eden Roc next door about the Fountain- bleau's new addition. The Eden Roc claims it shades Eden Roc patrons from the sun, without which it is' diffi cult to rent $40-a-day rooms. South Beach, the fading area of Miami Beach, is get ting a face lifing. Huge coop erative apartment buildings are rising in place of the stuc coed relics of the 1925 boom Miami Beach citizens have just voted to ban vehicles from famed Lincoln Road and turn the popular shopping street into a landscaped pedes trian mall Miami is thinking about do ing the same' thing only more so with downtown Flagler Street. By 1980, city planners hope to cover Flagler with. a plastic dome, air condition it and provide moving side walks for shoppers. Crossroads of Americas A stroller down Flagler to day can quickly surmise that Miami has become the cross roads of the Americas. Mixed with four different inflections of Spanish are several kinds of English, Canadian French, Dutch and Portuguese. The Miami area has more than 100,000 residents of Latin American descent and sizable populations of Greeks, Hun garians, Poles and Canadian French. The bookies and big gam bling dens of pre-Kefauver Committee days are gone. So are the big night clubs. Hotel clubs and shows have run the latter out of business. The big change is a bold new experiment in govern ment. It is called Metro and civics experts say it is unique. It puts the county - or Metro - government over all 26 mu nicipalities in Dade County with power to pass its own laws without going to the state legislature. Exceot for 11 Metro commissioners, all other county officers are appointed. The hopes for Metro is that it eventually will be able to supply economically all the metropolitan services that the separate municipaities have been unable to cope with in one . of . the nation's fastest growing areas. Court suits by the dozens and two major voting refer- endums have attacked Metro. All have been thwarted and Metro, after more than two years of life, now is ready to start work. -The auto is uneconomical because of it's "low carrying value," usually one or two persons per car. -It is much cheaper to pur chase existing rights-of-ways of railroad and street car lines than buy residential and com mercial property for high ways, which also cancels out valuable tax ratable. -Railways outlast motor transit facilities, including buses, are less affected by weather changes and do not add to the problem of air pol lution. -Freeways generate in-city traffic jams which hurts the merchant by encouraging shoppers to patronize fringe area shopping centers. Alexander said some cities may relieve some of this pres sure by expanding bus transit facilities, but he said this also will reach the point of no re turn. Undeserved Foothold Goodman, a govern m e n t economist when he isn't fur thering the goals of the volun teer citizens transit associa tion, claims that "pressure groups" have given highway transit an undeserved foot hold in the nation's urban planning. "It results from pressures generated by auto manufac turers, producers of gasoline. diesel oil and rubber tires and even manufacturing of paving materials," he said. Alexander admits that his organization has an economic stake in electric transit. And the National Coal association estimates from three to five million more tons' of coal would be used annually if the nation s urban areas expand ed electric transit. But Alexander said he also has a personal interest in the Washington area. He is a f ifth g e n e r ation Washingtonian, and a member of the family for whom the nearby city of Alexandria, Va., was named. 4 MAIL TRIBUNE, MeJforo', Or. 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