Phoenix rapid transit plan, 1989 cable car I redrew the MARTA map

I redrew the MARTA map for a friend who's living in Atlanta

The problem

and in the end the discussions never came to anything

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

Phoenix rapid transit plan, 1989 cable car I redrew the MARTA 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