{"id":195,"date":"2013-11-25T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2013\/11\/limas-electric-train.html"},"modified":"2016-03-25T18:21:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T23:21:51","slug":"limas-electric-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2013\/11\/limas-electric-train.html","title":{"rendered":"Lima’s Electric Train"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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When I was a kid in the mid 1980s, President Alan Garcia began the construction of a 21 kilometer long elevated train track to connect downtown Lima with its southern districts. \u00a0The \u201celectric train\u201d as it was called was to be a futuristic project, quickly moving thousands of people over an ever-more congested city. \u00a0In 1989 there was a sample car of the train at the annual Pacific Fair of Lima. \u00a0I remember getting on it and being very excited. \u00a0\u201cLima will soon be like Disney World with its own elevated train,\u201d I thought. \u00a0Below is a picture of that happy day. \u00a0I am wearing blue pants, standing with some of my dad\u2019s employees. \u00a0What I did not know that day was that it would take twenty-two years for the project to be finished and twenty-four years for me to ride the train.<\/div>\n
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By 1990 the money secured for the project was gone due to corruption and Peru\u2019s terrible financial and social crisis. \u00a0Only two or three stations had been opened. \u00a0The train was useless. \u00a0Pillars sustaining empty air stood along much of the proposed path. \u00a0Construction resumed in 2010 and the following year President Alan Garcia inaugurated the train during his second presidential term. \u00a0Construction has already began to expand the line across the Rimac River into northern Lima and studies have been done to build four more lines.<\/div>\n
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After most had lost hope that the train would become a reality, the train now moves thousands quickly across the city. \u00a0This last August the fifty millionth passenger was recognized. \u00a0The electric train has led Lima into a much more modern third millennium.<\/div>\n
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