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- NATION, Page 28American NotesLOS ANGELESGetting Back On Track
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- Though they may differ over politics, taxes and who puts out
- the best video exercise tape, Los Angeles residents seldom
- disagree about traffic congestion: it is horrific and steadily
- growing worse. Help may be on the way. This week the Blue Line,
- the first leg of the city's first light rapid-transit rail
- system for commuters, will begin running from downtown to Long
- Beach, 20 miles to the south, with 22 stops along the way.
- Fare: a flat $1.10.
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- But will Angelenos use the $800 million line? Says Norm
- Jester, director of rail activation for the Rail Construction
- Corporation: "It will be attractive enough to encourage people
- to leave cars behind." The line is expected to carry 35,000
- daily passengers the first year and 54,000 by the year 2000.
- That will leave more than enough of L.A.'s 4 1/2 million auto
- commuters to clog freeways well into the next century.
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