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...Republican Congressman Robert Walker, the $88 billion highway bill is filled with "page after page of pork-barrel projects." But to drivers stuck on Boston's "distressway," inching along Illinois 121 toward Peoria, or stewing in traffic in hundreds of other communities, funds for new roads, bridges and tunnels cannot come soon enough. Some of the most urgent -- and the most questionable...
...subway is nonetheless considered extravagant. Construction began last fall on the first, 4.4-mile downtown segment, which will cost $1.25 billion, with $870 million coming from Washington. Opponents favor less costly projects, like surface railroads along existing freeways. One critical slogan: "Stop the Subway and Save Mass Transit." The highway bill gives L.A. another, more widely praised plum: 27 smaller projects, valued at $74 million, to improve gridlocked roads around the Port of Los Angeles-Long Beach...
Dukakis called for increased investment in the nation's "infrastructure"--the roads, railroads, transit lines and water and sewer systems. He criticized President Reagan's recent veto of a massive highway and transit bill as shortsighted...
...hundred reporters and one Radcliffe extern had been waiting for half-an-hour in the end of a corridor intersecting President Reagan's route to the old Senate chamber. There, he planned to lobby 13 recalcitrant Republicans who had voted to override his veto of the $87.9 billion highway bill. We hoped he would conclude his mission before lunchtime...
...vote considered the motion to table the motion to indefinitely postpone the motion to reconsider the motion to override the President's veto of the highway bill, or, for all it mattered, the house that Jack built...