number 59 • Spring 2024

The Public Interest

Cinderella in our cities

Thomas E. Lisco

Winter 1970

URBAN mass transportation in the United States is in the early stages of a vast transformation, a transformation that will rival the rags-to-riches change visited upon a fairy tale Cinderella.

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