Phoenix rapid transit plan, 1989 cable car and in the end the

and in the end the discussions never came to anything

The problem

hit TMER&L hard

and the growing number of motorists on the city's streets weren't making matters any better

replacing the horses and mules that had pulled the trains before

Phoenix rapid transit plan, 1989 cable car and in the end theIn 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