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Mass Transit

In turn, mass transit responds by
increasing its capacity to carry large
numbers of people quickly and
efficiently. People who never
before travelled on a bus do so and
actually enjoy it. The New York
cab strike was a further example of
the way in which the force of habit
can be altered. Everyone thought
that without cabs chaos would
reign. Instead, shoppers,
businessmen, and tourists alike used
the buses and subways and
generally had favorable reactions.
Right now the lasting effects of this
can be seen, for the cabbie's
business is substantially down.