European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday. January 31. 1987 air safety panel promised Byrd says Washington i d Raicic Leader in Hurt Hyrd of West Virginia said riday president Ria Uin Litls him he would appoint an Independent commission soon in investigate the safely of Llie nation s civil ii aim As Tern. Testifying before a Senate aviation subcommittee Bvrd said Cagan should have named such a panel 1w months ago following passage in Congress of the aviation safely commission act. Byrd said he talked with Reagan thursday find was assured the panel writ old he named in the near future the commission would look at various aspects of air safely and make Rea Immen Ili itans Byrd said he is disturbed by an in crease in inc number or near collisions in the skies from 1985 to j9k6. On thursday transportation Secre tary Elizabeth Dole said All planes lying near airports in 14 major cities must have Altitude reporting equipment by in a. I. Commercial airliners already have such equipment hut Many smaller planes do not. The new requirement jul give air traffic controllers a comp to Pic Ture of id inn rail in airspace near 25 cities. In addition Ull radio receiver trans mitters., known As transponders that arc installed in planes after Jan. I. 1492, must be compatible with the new Rajar Beacon system for Altitude. Dole said. Tim Guvi uni Neil Hal Lor Llie Altitude requirement Ahu to Lake effect Jan. I. I to. Hut l Ile Saul it was moved up by More than firm cars to 1 As Purt of our Effort provide a safer and More efficient mows which Dumini a a total inks on let Reguin treated la third Larussi accumulation in the cily in in irs National weather scrmx1 officials said h was the wont snowfall is Nee pc Druary 1471. Most government workers got Al least two Days off because of the storms and Many schools in the Region have been closed since last wednesday. When fed eral offices reopened workers were a Low cd to mint in Laic or slay Home with out penalty. Cily and suburban officials have said the Region is equipped to handle about b inches of Snow Vii out problems. The cily spent about $1 million in Snow cleanup and called out the Nalion us Cliuard thursday night when uni her storm swept into the area. Cars parked in the Street thai have obstructed clean up eff res were for the first Lime on Many sirixi1. Lowed and ticketed. Krulas s accumulation was about to inches. Koan a were Clear and traffic us moving smoothly into the City Dur ing the morning Rush hour i he subway is Titoni was aim i Hack n schedule Wifler being virtually Al Zed when ice and Snow rendered the Power rail or above ground tracks use less and greatly hampered maintenance Oft ars the head of the Washington metro Politan area transit authority on thurs Day called the subway system s performance during the snowstorms horrendous apologized to commuters and vowed to improve performance for future storms. General manager Carmen Turner said .120 of the system s 570 subway cars were damaged by weather or overuse. It is precisely when it is most difficult for us 10 operate Altai our customers de Pend on us the nost. And wx1 must meet their needs said Turner in an apology to . Despite our efforts we it id nut meet Mir passengers needs tin1 i Deral pm remt no stepped in it Silav with an offer from the trans Jikit Juii department d in the local in Iii Sysu in u m ral in Ninn of dollars Wurmli nude ii Iii Iii
