EDITORIAL
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merica and many countries call for massive rapid
transit initiatives, ones tied to invention, new methods���
imagined, designed and realized���while safeguarding the
environment. Although sustaining and improving national
highway systems is also a priority, substantial transformation of national railway systems will result in the emergence of new industry, ancillary products and protocols
conducive to setting the stage for broad economic reverberations. Efficient, organized, up-to-date mass transit is
central to the well-being, functionality and prosperity of
society.
On America���s Eastern coast, legendary Route 66 begins
on acclaimed summer and artistic colony, Cape Cod,
Massachusetts at Provincetown, located at the Cape���s
very tip, a sandbar with desert-like dunes extending into
Massachusetts Bay. Here the English Pilgrims first landed
and shortly thereafter sailed across Massachusetts Bay
to settle in Plymouth.
From Provincetown, Route 66 crosses the country, an asphalt guideway to Los Angeles for millions of Americans
who felt the call of the West in the final automotive-driven
throes of that great migration.
During the last half-century, Route 66 was surpassed by
massive new federal highways. Yet it still holds, in some circles, a near-mythical allure. It and President Eisenhower���s
interstate highway system���initiated in the 1950s���form
a massive, ever-active national performance art work.
Both Route 66 and Eisenhower���s monumental achievement were created to satiate the automobile and the
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