Phoenix rapid transit plan, 1989 cable car It's the second historical map

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

replacing the horses and mules that had pulled the trains before

Starting in 1947

drawn in the same style to match

Phoenix rapid transit plan, 1989 cable car It's the second historical mapIn 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