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Puerto Rico's planned island-wide rapid transit system, 1972 Size:24x36 The $8 billion price tag

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The $8 billion price tag

Due to industrialization and immigration

The Pennsylvania and the Reading had dead-end terminals at opposite ends of Center City Philadelphia

Over two decades before the Washington Metro system was approved

Puerto Rico's planned island-wide rapid transit system, 1972 Size:24x36 The $8 billion price tagIn 1972, governor Luis Ferr's plan 1972 was to build a 260 mile long, 120mph rapid transit system with a big terminal in San Juan's financial district (labeled here as Nuevo Centro) and to build new towns, or "pueblos nuevos," around the stations. This would prevent the kind of haphazard slum urbanization that happened elsewhere in Latin America. It got superb press, both nationally and internationally. The problem was, Puerto Rican politicians have a

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