Santorum announces $4 million for metro
BALA CYNWYD, Pa. (AP) A U.S. Senate committee has set aside
$4 million toward construction of a proposed passenger rail line
between Philadelphia and Reading, Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., said
yesterday.
The money for the 62-mile-long Schuylkill Valley Metro Line was
included in the Fiscal Year 2000 Transportation Appropriations bill,
Santorum said in a news conference at the Bala Cynwyd train station
of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA).
The light-rail line, which could cost up to $7OO million, would cut
through Montgomery, Chester and Berks counties. It would parallel
the 1-76 and Route 422 Expressways and reduce rush-hour congestion
to and from Philadelphia.
The state has been doing a $75 million engineering study for the pro
posed line. SEPTA and the Berks Area Reading Transportation Author
ity (BARTA) are cooperating in the study, which is to be completed by
February 2000.
SEPTA and BARTA officials have said the region, which includes 52
municipalities, is one of the fastest-growing in Southeastern Pennsyl
vania. Rapid growth in housing and jobs has forced more traffic onto
already crowded roads such as the Schuylkill Expressway and U.S.
Route 422, as well onto secondary and local roads, they said.
Free ride may soon end for turnpike drivers
BEDFORD, Pa. (AP) There is such a thing as a free ride.
Motorists have been allowed to travel 16 miles on the Pennsylvania
Turnpike from Breezewood to Bedford only if they get on at one
exit and off at the other.
The fare for a car normally would be 80 cents. But it has been
waived to divert traffic from a stretch of U.S. Route 30 that is being
widened, and the federal government is reimbursing the Turnpike
Commission for the lost tolls.
With the heaviest construction two years away, the federal alloca
tion is already starting to dry up.
Turnpike commission records show that from Oct. 1, 1998, when the
program began, through Sept. 1, $1 million of $3.1 million in reim
bursements had been spent. And construction schedules show the
biggest traffic snarls on Route 30 are still nearly two years away.
"The people have been using it," said Kathy Liebler, a commission
spokeswoman. "My understanding is that the program stays in place
until the money is used up."
The money came as part of the 1998 federal transportation bill
authored by U.S. Rep. Bud Shuster, R-Pa.
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U.S. might train again in Puerto Rico
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) A presidential panel recommended
yesterday the Navy be allowed to resume practice bombing on the
Puerto Rican island of Vieques over the objections of the local popu
lation and the Puerto Rican government but that it prepare to aban
don the island within five years.
The recommendation drew immediate protest in Puerto Rico, where
sentiment against the Navy has been growing since a civilian security
guard was killed in a bombing accident in April. Protesters have been
camping out on the bombing range siuce then, but the Navy is eager to
resume using it.
Reflecting the political sensitivity of the controversy, Hillary Rod
ham Clinton called for a permanent end to using Vieques as a bombing
range. The first lady, who is courting Hispanic political support in her
exploratory campaign for a U.S. Senate seat from New York, urged the
Navy to find an alternative.
"There should be an immediate and permanent end to the bombing,"
Clinton said in a written statement. "Use of live fire on the island has
put the people of Vieques at risk, degraded the environment and ham
pered economic development."
Howard Wolfson, spokesman for Clinton's political committee, said
her position on Vieques was not politically motivated. "This decision is
made on the merits," Wolfson said, adding New York Sens. Charles
Schumer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan shared the first lady's views on
the subject.
EPA could be lacking needed water research
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) With crucial rules on safe drinking
water due in stages over the next seven years, the Environmental Pro
tection Agency might lack the needed research to protect the public
and the financial health of water utilities, investigators concluded.
Providers of drinking water, and those trying to ensure its safety,
told investigators they were concerned with "the adequacy of the
research" on arsenic, disinfectants and other contaminants.
The General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative arm, said in
a report obtained yesterday that each year since fiscal 1997, the EPA
has asked for less money than the amount authorized under the Safe
Drinking Water Act amendments of 1996. EPA earlier this year esti
mated the "shortfall" in drinking water research at $lO million to $2O
million annually between fiscal years 1999 and 2005, the report said.
Water experts interviewed by the investigators "believe that if EPA
issues regulations that are more stringent than what is justified by the
available research, then water utilities could bear unnecessarily high
treatment costs," the report said.
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Israel gives Mandela hero's welcome
JERUSALEM (AP) Hectoring his Israeli hosts in mild tones for
their past alliances, Nelson Mandela elicited nothing darker than
smiles and cheers yesterday from statesmen and schoolchildren alike
during his first visit to Israel.
The former South African president's trip brought a belated end to
the enmity between the Jewish state and the movement Mandela head
ed for decades from a jail cell.
While Israel provided the apartheid regime with arms and training,
Mandela's African National Congress forged alliances with the Arab
radicals Israel once regarded as mortal enemies.
"Israel worked very closely with the apartheid regime," Mandela
reminded President Ezer Weizman.
But he was quick to add he was in Israel on a mission of reconcilia
tion.
"I say Israel cooperated with apartheid but they did not get involved
in the atrocities," he said.
Tanzanians welcome Nyerere remains
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) The port city known as the
"haven of peace" came to a standstill yesterday as thousands of Tanza
nians welcomed home the remains of former president Julius Nyerere,
the father of their nation and independent Africa's spiritual guide.
Businesses and government offices remained closed as people
thronged the airport hours before the coffin of the man known to all as
"Mwalimu," or 'teacher' in Kiswahli, arrived aboard an Air Tanzania
jet from London yesterday morning. Nyerere died Oct. 14 in a London
hospital of complications from leukemia. He was 77.
Nyerere, who led the British colony of Tanganyika to independence
in 1961, was a champion of liberation movements across southern
Africa.
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