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Senate OKs $41.3B for Mass Transit Page . o f 2) <br /> Sens. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., and Rod Grams, R-Minn., said that of <br /> 760 million budgeted this year for rail modernization, 90 percent <br /> goes to the 11 old systems and only 10 percent to 34 metropolitan <br /> areas with newer systems. <br /> " If mass transit programs are to be effective, then the funding <br /> needs to go to the cities in regions of our country that are the fastest <br /> growing and drastically need this transitfundiing, " Grams said, <br /> Allard spoke of Colorado' s tremendous population growth and the <br /> need to " thinly a little bit about what' s happening demographically <br /> as we move into a new century." <br /> They proposed that all of the increased funding for rail <br /> modernization in the next six-yeas bill, about 240 million a year, <br /> should go to the new systems. <br /> But under a compromise reached with Senate Banking Committee <br /> Chairman Alfonse D' Amato, R- . ., 50 percent of the increased <br /> funding will go to the new systems. <br /> Many of the 34 new systems are in the South and west, places such <br /> as Los Angeles, Miami, Denver and Dallas that have begun to turn <br /> to mass transit as the highways they traditionally relied on for <br /> transport heeds have become clogged. <br /> Copyright 1998 Associated Press. All rights resen-ed. This inaterial may not be <br /> published,broadcast, rewritten. or redistributed. <br /> NAWWorld @ Copyright 1998.All rights reserved. <br /> .../article?thi s lug=03 1 AID-FUGHWA -SPEND&date=11-Mar- 8&wo rd=fund s&wo rd—f undi ng3 12/98 <br />