Phoenix rapid transit plan, 1989 cable car The mob took control and

The mob took control and accelerated the pace of the streetcar shutdown

It's the second historical map that I started working on

and in the end the discussions never came to anything

drawn in the same style to match

The problem

Phoenix rapid transit plan, 1989 cable car The mob took control andIn 1984, the Valley of the Sun was booming, traffic was miserable, and greater Phoenix had nowhere near the infrastructure to deal with it. So a deal was struck in the State Legislature: two separate infrastructure taxes would be put to a vote: one for better mass transit, and one for more freeways. The freeway tax passed handily in 1985, but the mass transit plan, depicted here, was a hot mess. The $8 billion price tag, of course, was the problem and