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On the recordFebruary 9, 1999
Today I am asking this committee to appropriate $10 million for preliminary engineering and environmental studies for an elevated, automated people mover system, connecting these two downtowns; downtown in El Paso and the downtown in Cuidad Juarez.
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Silvestre Reyes
Texas

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Reyes requests funding for a people mover system between El Paso and Cuidad Juarez.

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