Transportation: Year of travail: Although some projects were halted or delayed, new urban and mainline systems are proceeding

Continuing adverse economic conditions in much of the world have hindered, if not crippled, advances in all forms of transportation. United States airline schedules have been drastically curtailed, the huge Boeing 747s that were often flying with much less than half their passenger capacity were virtually eliminated from U.S. domestic flight schedules, and passenger fares have been steadily increasing to cover sharply rising operating expenditures.