I. IS THE SITUATION HOPELESS?
EDITOR S INTRODUCTION
How gloomy is the mass transit situation? This first see-
don discusses existing mass transit facilities. It sketches the
development of U.S. transit and traces the decline that fol-
lowed $Vorld War II.
The articles in this section provide background for all
that follows elsewhere in die book. As the final article by
Thomas E. Lisco notes， individual choices as to what form
of transportation to use depend on the shape o~ the com-
munity， one s pocketbook， and the ease or difficulty of driv-
!ng and perking. Thus the form the transit picture will take
m a specific area depends on dozens of individual local
circumstances. The solution that would suit Moline prob-
ably wouldn t suit Pittsburgh.
Tile first article is an overview of urban mass transit，
with stress on the need to mesh planning for cars with other
forms of transit. The second article， from the Christian Sci-
ence Monitor， oEers details of what the transit tangle means
for a specific city， Boston. An article from Congressional
Digest details the scope of existing urban transportation--
how many vehicles， what kind， carrying how many passen-
gers how far， and so forth. Next， also from Congressional
Digest， is ai1 article tracing tile development of the present
Federal role in transit from the earliest years of the Repub-
lic to the present.
An excerpt fronl President Lyndon B. Johnson s mes-
sage to Congress urging creation of a Department of Trans-
portation provides a broad survey of past needs and responses
as well as present and future realities in transportation.
(The Department was established as a Cabinet office on
October 15， 1966.) The final selection in this section is an
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