Phoenix rapid transit plan, 1989 cable car drawn in the same style

drawn in the same style to match

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

Detroit went all-in on its freeway system

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

Phoenix rapid transit plan, 1989 cable car drawn in the same styleIn 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