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it Chicago Tribune, Sunday, September 2, 1973 Section 1 5 ft rip i Chicago firm to help Brazil subway run Bob Wiedrich In If' If yi vmm fill mi Steels panels in varied shapes and colors will instantly identify station stops in Sao Paulo's new subway system. Paul Gapp Urban Affah-s Editor HOW DO you show 6 million city dwellers how to. use a new, complicated 30-mile subway system when few have ever seen a subway and many can't even read? The 6 million live in Sao Paulo, Brazil, which is trying to cope with one of the worst traffic messes in the world. 'Sao Paulo, they say, is jammed with tens of thousands of automobiles, but has only the skimpy beginnings of an expressway system. Its more than 100 private and publicly owned bus lines are a transit planner's nightmare.

Traffic jams are colossal. The daring maneuvers and epithetical vocabularies of Sao Paulo drivers must be experienced to be believed. AND SO the Companhia do Metropolitan de Sao Paulo was formed by the government to build and run a subway system, which it calls "Metro," The first 10-mile stretch of Metro will open next summer and the rest of it in 1975. Computer-controlled, and fast, it will probably match anything else in the world, including the new San Francisco subway. But how do you make it easy for riders to find their way around multi-level stations, figure out transfer points, and decide where to get on and off trains running in an unprecedented for them underground environment? That job has fallen to a Chicago firm, Unimark International, 120 S.

Riverside Plaza. Unimark is solving the problem by using color codes, maps, symbols, and precisely calculated instructional and directional language displayed in the right size, position, and relationship to the subway traveler. RENATO VIEGAS, a Brazil-ian subway architect, flew to Chicago the other day to confer with Robert Unimark executive vice president, and the two of them ex- Much of the development will occur around bus stations, which will provide feeder service to and from the subway. Meanwhile, Metro planners are thinking about a couple of other surprises to prepare Sao Paulo's millions for their first encounter with noisy, highspeed, subterranean travel. Before operations begin, there will probably be a 60-day open house, during which citizens may meander about the stations, examine trains, and listen to.

illustrated talks about how to use the system. After that, when someone presses the "go" button on the computer, everybody in town may be allowed to travel the system for the first few days free of charge. plained'what they're doing. i Moldafsky projects 50 or more slides on a screen to show you how this works, which makes it sound complicated. Actually, the elements of the system blend into a scheme of which the rider will be hardly aware, but which will steer him along effortlessly.

At least, that's what everybody hopes. At each of the 40 station entrances will be three maps. One, for fast orientation, shows the three basic subway routes and station names. The second will be the same map superimposed on a city grid map, if you require a bit more detail. The third is a map of the neighborhood surrounding the station where you happen to be the handiest of all.

HANDSOME, vari-colorcd panels of baked enamel on steel will, brighten tube walls at every station and relieve the drabness of exposed concrete. No two stations will look alike. Home or work stops will thus be instantly recognizable, and the cheery effect may even discourage vandals and graffiti Brazilian Metro planners originally wanted to paint everything brown does that remind you of CTA green? but Unimark talked them out of it. "Overhead stripsof lights will also guide 'subway users, illuminated street-level pylons will help them spot stations at a distance, and dozens of other design concepts and mechanical devices will be used to keep passengers comfortable, safe, and as happy as subway travelers can be. The idea, after all, is to get people to leave their cars at home and relieve the street chaos.

The fare is expected to be about 10 cents. With considerable sophistication, Sao Paulo officials are using the subway as a kind of massive spine for urban renewal, beautification, and the creation of open space. PLAZAS, shopping centers, "and housing will be built along the right-of-way after deteriorating buildings are razed. SAnd 4 auxiliary entrances CTA shutting down 7 'rapid transit stations today Eurocrats wider ujar agmtist drugs THE COST OF HEROIN ADDICTION to the United States has. reached astronomical freights and continues growing as the disease afflicts' more and more young Americans.

Experts estimate the nation's more than 500,000 heroin addicts commit more than $16 billion in crimes annually to support their habits, and spend at least $15' million a dayin the narcotics marketplace, Clearly, President Nixon was, not overly dramatizing the heroin menace when he labeled ft a national emergency several years ago. In fact, Nixon demonstrated his growing concern earher this year by uniting Uie government's battle against the international drug traffic under a new Drug En-orcement Administration. Yet, even in the face of such White House there are still officials in the government who are dragging their feet in this vital struggle for reasons best known only to their burocratic liiinds. During the third ori-the-scene investigation made' of Southeast Asian heroin trad by United States Rep. Morgan Murphy the Chicago Democrat repeatedly found evidence of roadbBcks being placed in the paths of Drag Enforcement and U.S.

Customs agents stationed qverseas to stem the flow of Indochina heroin into the United tin the rugged Himalayan 'foothills, of the Thailand, Burma, Laotian border Murphy, found that agents who risk their lives daily on hazardous patrols had been waiting eight months for delivery of a radio antenna essential to communications used to hunt down, opium caravans. And in Thailand, Murphy encountered further evidence of burocratic i bungling. AGENTS ON THE SCENE were Unable to explain the. failure of government officials inf. Washington to furnish two helicopters and several patrol boats needed to locate opium poppy fields in remote areas of northern Thailand and seek out fishing trawlers smuggling 'opium heroin thru the Gulf of Siara.

Leonard Unger, the American "ambassador to had spent months persuading the Thai government to permit the overflights with ithe sophisticated camera equipment heeded to spot the poppy fields. But when Washington failed to produce the -helicopters for 18 months, the Thais threw up their hands in dismay and withdrew the agreement. They also had three patrol boats built in Japan at their own expense rather, than wait for the to produce either surplus boats of helicopters from its vast in Southeast Asia (Mowing the Viet Nam "How can we send American agents into these countries and ask for cooperation in the against narcotics, then fail to keep bur promises of equipment and funding?" Murphy asked. nations have every right to doubt our sincerity." Much of the cash for the narcotics fight is tunneled thru the for international Development, the 'State Department's arm In the foreign aid field. i According to Murphy's findings, some AID personnel have arbitrarily placed a low priority on attempts to stamp out the illicit heroin trade at its sources in the Golden Triangle area of Southeast Asia.

They appear' more Concerned with observing diplomatic niceties toward the1 host countries in yhich thejr operate, he said, 'fik-' Jobs of federal agents1 overseas much toughen However, Murphy found the situation vastly improved over his last tour of Indochina two years ago. Ambassador Unger said, has achieved excellent cooperation with the Thai government. 't And Burma, which until a year ago actually condoned the opium traffic across its is beginning to display conr-cern. Laos is also cooperating, altho tob' many of, its, top officials are suspected of Involvement in the traffic. Based on his recent findings; Rep.

Murphy said he intends to recommend to the White House that a thoro investi- gation be made of AID'S failure to respond to the needs of the agents in the field. President Nixon should build a fire under the agency, for it is failing to respond totally to Nixon's, declaration of war oh the global narcotics traffic. Murphy said he will recommend the Intelligence Agency become more deeply in the narcotics fight. It does have tremendous resources and mon-; ey, but also gives drugs a low priority because of its primary concern for intelligence gathering and national security. "I appreciate its Murphy said.

"Both these tasks are vital to the United States. But all of the govern-ment agencies must recognize this fact heroin is also an enemy and it is an enemy already within our borders." I' SKOKIE SWIFT SERVICE Yo i A Now a station AftfaaLrtaf suspend full bus service on six more routes 2 Hyde Park Local, 7A Harrison-Adams, 10 Lincoln-Larrabee, 13 Elston, 72A North Limited, and 136 At that time, the CTA also is planning to modify a number of other bus routes, largely to provide nearby alternate service for the routes being discontinued. THE LIMITED service cuts were voted by the CTA board after Gov. Walker provided the transit authority with emergency funding of $12 million, pending state legislative action on a regional transportation authority RTA, along with a permanent plan for subsidizing public transportation. Before that emergency funding, the CTA had planned to cut service by more than 10 per cent to make ends meet.

The cuts now being carried out will reduce service by no more than 2.5 per cent. Because of the closing of the Paulina station on the Ravenswood route, the CTAr on Tuesday will make a change in its skip-stop and fB." service for weekday rush-hour periods for two nearby The Ravenswood branch sta-tion at Montrose Avenue, which had been an all-stop station, will become a train stop. The Ravenswood branch Addison station, which has been a stop, will become an train stop. HOWARD SERVICE MONTROSE VfcX ADDISON" PAULINA Now an A station (weekday rush-hour) 1 By Thomas Buck THE CHICAGO Transit Authority today will stop using seven rapid transit stations that it considers lightly patronized. The move is another step in a limited program of cutting service to reduce operating costs.

Four auxiliary entrances to elevated stations also will be closed today. The seven stations being closed completely are Paulina, on the Ravenswood elevated route; Central, Kostner, and California on the Eisenhower Expressway rapid transit route; 50th Avenue in Cicero on the. Douglas State and 59th Streets on the Englewood route, and the State-Van Buren station on the Loop elevated route. Auxiliary entrances being closed are at Spaulding Avenue at the Kedzie station on the Ravenswood Kinzie Street at the Merchandise Mart station; 47th Court at the Cicero Avenue station of the Douglas and Euclid Avenue at the Oak Park station of the Lake Street elevated service. THE CLOSINGS represent the second round of a limited three-step plan for reducing LAKE SERVICE in fashions fo csaujifui women ILUUH mm mm CALIFORNIA CENTRAL III an II A J.

l-WIVUKli STATE- SERVICE VAN BUREN KOSTNER fl 50TH DOUGLAS SERVICE US "2 ENGlEWOODl I y. Rapid Transit Stations closing tnrfav JACKSON 4 SERVICE PARK Tribune Map by Ray Shlemon foreign cruise ships to visit China again service that the CTA Board authorized a month ago. The first step took place' on Aug. 5 when the CTA suspended full bus service on three routes 5B Yates-Colfax, 46 Southport, and 98 Roscoc. Next Sunday, the CTA is to try sources.

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