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...Angeles: Metro Rail. Planned as the area's first rapid-transit system since the "red car" rail network was scrapped in the 1960s, the 20-mile, $4.5 billion 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...
Boston: Central Artery/Harbor Tunnel. The I-93 north-south expressway and the two tunnels that connect downtown to Logan International Airport are congested eight hours a day. Massive infusions of money into the mass-transit system, boat shuttles and airport helicopter services have failed to reduce traffic. Solution: widen and lower to ground level the now elevated distressway and build a third harbor tunnel. Price: $3.1 billion. Federal share: $2.5 billion...
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...
...compromise that led the package to success includes mass transit projects in large Eastern states that greased the decision for several Senate Republicans, and a provision allowing states to raise the speed limit from 55 to 65 miles per hour, which gave a powerful incentive to legislators from rural Western states...
There is an outside chance that drivers may have to dawdle along at 55 despite Congress's green light for the 10-m.p.h. increase. The new speed limit is a rider to an $88 billion authorization bill for highways and mass transit that may be vetoed by the President. Ronald Reagan, who is all for upping the speed limit, feels that the bill is on the expensive side. Congressmen, however, want those federal dollars for their states, and will gun their engines to fight a veto...