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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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its negativeimpacts upon the environment. Because mass transit is unavail-able, unsatisfactory or uneconomi-cal, the System finds itself, as anemployer, under pressure fromcommunity residents, from zoningboards and from employees to pro-vide parking for those who drive towork. But provision of parking iscostly, environmentally damagingand wasteful and, in urban areas,often impossible. The growing dependence on theautomobile perpetuates a cycle inwhich more driving is encouraged,valuable land is devoted to road-ways and parking, and more jobsare moved beyond the reach of thepoor, the elderly and the minoritieswho are left behind in the city. Inshort, because of the inadequaciesof the nations mass transportationsystem, the Bell System and otherlarge corporations are put into theposition of subsidizing in a varietyof ways the most inefficient mode oftravel known to man—the automo-bile. At one suburban Bell locationthe amount of this subsidy is esti-mated to be about $1 million a year,
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which is the roughly calculated val-ue of the parking facilities, trafficcontrols, security and other servicesprovided for employees who driveto work. On the other hand, forthose who travel by rail, bus or autoto locations in urban areas. BellSystem companies are under pres-sure to help defray rising costs asso-ciated with commutation. An important part of the recentcontract settlement with the Com-munications Workers of America,which is the union representingmost Bell System employees, was asalary differential to help employeesdefray the added expense of work-ing in major cities like New York,Detroit and Chicago. Transportationis one of the many costs these salarydifferentials—ranging up to $9 aweek—are designed to help defray. For many years the System hasfelt compelled to take account oftransportation as a cost-of-livingfactor in computing the salariespaid to personnel transferred fromone region of the country or fromone city to another. Even so, it has become increas-ingly dif

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