Arizona Republic:  “A bad economy has meant that building a regional bus system in the Valley is no longer a regional endeavor. . . . Paul Hodgins, capital-programming manager for Valley Metro, which operates the transit system,said every region took a 25 percent cut in transit dollars.”

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