Moving People In The Community (1972)

[Music] [Music] in every Community people need ways to get from one place to another like cars right cars are one kind of private transportation but what about people who don't have a car how can they get to work a bus sure they can take the bus buses are one kind of public transportation in a small City most people have jobs close to home but they still need transportation large city there are many more people and some of them live a long way from their jobs they may even live outside the city in the suburbs right most large cities have special roads for people who have a long way to drive expressways yes expressways or freeways there's a lot of cars driving into the city this is the morning Rush [Music] Hour do all those people take the train to work yes trains like this are a fast way to move many people from the suburbs to their jobs in the city there's another train it's different isn't it this is a special kind of train for the people who live in the city it's called a rapid transit train a rapid transit train can move faster than Street traffic and it stops only at special stations a rapid transit train has to run on tracks so it can't go everywhere in the city but a bus doesn't run on train X so it can go on any Street that's true but buses do have routs they travel along certain streets and stop at certain Corners often people must transfer from one bus to another to get where they want to go do some people change from the bus to the rapid transit train sure at some stations people can transfer from one rapid transit train to another people who drive to work don't have to wait for a bus or train and they don't have to transfer but they have other problems there are more cars now and they're slowing down some are even stopping and what's another problem cars make air pollution that's why you can't see those buildings very well when all the cars get into the city they have another problem they have to find a place to [Music] park streets and parking places for the cars and tracks for the trains all this takes up a lot of valuable space you know a way we can save some of this space It's Going Underground this is a tunnel a [Music] Subway you may need transportation to get to school if transportation is to move smoothly and safely we need to follow certain rules oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] hey how come that train is so short well the rush hour is over most people are already at work there aren't as many people riding the bus either no but all day long people do need transportation for shopping and other things the cars can move faster when it's not so crowded when it's not rush hour what happens to all the other train cars there are some of them this is where they're kept until they're needed to bring people home from work at night while they're not being used the cars are cleaned it takes many people doing many different jobs to keep public transportation running like cre chman and conductors and [Music] motormen and of course it costs money to pay these people and to pay for all the equipment some of the money comes from the fairs that people pay to ride [Music] trains and buses are probably the cheapest kind of Transportation you can [Music] use here's another kind of public transportation a taxi doesn't have to serve a large number of people at the same time it can take you exactly where you want to go but it costs more than other kinds of public transportation [Music] if you have your own car then you don't even have to wait for a taxi cab and you can go wherever you want but private transportation also costs money you have to buy gasoline and new tires and stuff and if anything's wrong you have to pay to get it [Music] fixed usually it's cheaper to use public transportation of course there are some places where there isn't much public transportation you almost have to have a car like a shopping Center shopping centers must provide plenty of space for parking cars and so to wallp park [Applause] whenever a lot of people travel to or from the same place at the same time it gets very crowded how can large crowds of people be moved quickly one way is to provide several different kinds of Transportation public transportation can move many people at one time it would take hundreds of private cars to move the same number of people some kinds of Transportation are faster than others some are cheaper some can take you more directly to the place you want to go that's why we need several ways of moving people in the [Music] community e