The State - News from Oct. 21, 1986

Residents of the San Francisco Bay Area see transportation as the region’s biggest problem and are increasingly worried about AIDS, according to a survey by Field Research Corp. for the Bay Area Council. The poll listed transportation as the nine-county area’s No. 1 headache for a fourth consecutive year. Twenty-seven percent of the 625 respondents cited transportation as the most important problem, followed by pollution, 14%; overpopulation, 11%; drugs and crime, 6% each; and acquired immune deficiency syndrome and unemployment, 5% each. In last year’s poll, AIDS was not mentioned enough to be recorded, said Brigitte LaBlanc, vice president of the council, a business-sponsored advocacy and research organization.