Work is about to start in earnest on an ambitious plan to remake the Phoenix area's transportation system, with the new, 1.3 billion dollars, 2o-mi. light- rail system. The project stretches from northwest Phoenix through downtown and then east to Tempe and Mesa. Although construction on the first line sections isn't scheduled to begin until January, designers and contractors from around the Valley are already hard at work on various aspects of the project, which is slated for completion in 2008. Crews from FNF Construction of Tempe are in the final stages of a 2.3 million dollars bridge job that becomes the main access for a new, 64 million dollars maintenance and storage facility near 52nd Street and Washington. Officials from Valley Metro, the region's mass transit authority, are eyeing an August start on the new facility, which will handle up to 100 cars.
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