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Originally Posted by Keith R
The metro proposal was killed by the weight of its own insanity. The proposal did not make sense on many levels (economic, environmental, public policy, energy) to most anyone outside of those whose pockets were going to be lined by the project (and I include its principal proponents in this government and the Congress), and the PLD partisans who cannot stand to admit when their leaders have a loco idea.
I believe Leonel was more on the right track in his first Administration when he tried to clean up and make organized, reliable, cheap and sensible the public transport system and to change traffic flow patterns in the major cities. Granted, Hippo destroyed much of this good work, but that does not mean it was not worth rebuilding and building upon, rather than the slower, expensive, and energy-intensive metro idea...
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You asked if the government was tackling this problem, and the metro idea (as sensical or nonsensical it might have been) surely would have been attempt.
Whether it was a good idea or not, it's beyond the scope of this thread and beyond your question that I answered.
-NAL