11. Eighteen months ago, a local pol sponsored a successful ballot initiative that halts new subway construction after this year. 12. In Cairo and Rome, where preserving buried antiquities makes tunneling an art form, the new subways are an alternative to rush-hour arteriosclerosis. 13. On top of the concrete, workers are building the steel frames that will encase a new subway tunnel. 14. Photographic murals of railroad workers in Los Angeles, including those building this new subway, line a mezzanine wall. 15. Theater officials say people stopped coming to the movie house years ago when a new subway line bypassed the neighborhood. 16. There is wide support for the new subway line, ranging from the Auto Club of New York to the New York City Partnership and the Environmental Defense Fund. 17. Tourists will have to wait a little longer before they take the new subway to see the stars. 18. Until that imaginary map is ready, the new subway map released by the MTA last week will do. 19. Workers building a new subway line had accidentally punctured a pipeline carrying liquefied petroleum gas. 20. A giant earth-eating machine recently punched a new subway tunnel underneath the square where hundreds of publicos gather. |