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...That moment will come none too soon. Traffic inches along 1-95, the area's main thoroughfare, six hours of the day, and downtown parking rates run as high as $6 for three hours. Despite the poor start, Metrorail still expects to open its second segment, a ten-mile extension to the largely Cuban community of Hialeah, on time this year. In addition, Miami is planning to have by 1985 a 1.9-mile-long "people mover"-automated trains that will shuttle 41,000 commuters daily in a loop around the city's developing downtown...
...automobile-dominated West, seven major transit systems are planned or proposed. Among the most ambitious cities: Los Angeles, which plans to break ground before the Summer Olympics for an 18-mile, $3.3 billion subway that will follow the densely built, heavily trafficked Wilshire Boulevard corridor, cut through Hollywood and end up hi the San Fernando Valley. The underground will be the centerpiece of an eventual 160-mile network, second in size in the U.S. only to New York City's. Supporters see the rail plan as the last best hope for unclogging the city's fabled 715-mile...
...issue for mass transit, despite the fact that it would have meant no new taxes for the first leg. As a result, the city lost all but $5.5 million of the $110 million in federal aid it had been allocated from the gas-tax fund, and its proposed 18-mile heavy-rail system appears to be on permanent hold. "It's a humbling experience to take a licking like we did," admits Alan Kiepper, general manager of Houston's Metropolitan Transit Authority. Houstonians were simply unconvinced that a costly rail line was the answer to their legendary traffic...
...looking to the past, at least one town has validated Reagan's philosophy of local self-reliance: San Diego. When the city's 16-mile line of trolleys was completed in 1981, it was on schedule, under budget and funded entirely from state gas and sales taxes.* Dubbed the "Tijuana Trolley" because the line ends 100 ft. from the Mexican border, the bright red streetcars have attracted 4,000 more riders per day than originally projected. Fares, which can go as high as $1 for a full-run ride and are collected on an honor system, cover...
Just as fireworks celebrating the new year were subsiding, the guerrillas struck again at the meagerly defended Cuscatlán Bridge, a crossing 50 miles east of the capital on the Pan American Highway that many considered to be indestructible. Before government forces responded to the attack, the rebels managed to plant plastic explosives on the quarter-mile span. The blast snapped the suspension cables and sent twisted sections of roadway plummeting into the Lempa River. Until the bridge can be repaired, cotton, sugar and coffee harvests from the eastern departments will have to be transported across...