Plans will be underway shortly for the construction of a rail system at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport that will link all terminals and concourses of the facility as well as parking, rental car centers, and first of all, the light rail system under construction in Phoenix itself that will be up and running later this year. The light rail station at 44th St and Washington in Phoenix will enable commuters to enter the airport's separate rail system by 2013 with full completion of the airport project by 2020. The $1.1 billion project, which will be nearly five miles in length, will paid for by bonds issued by the airport and repaid through passenger facilities fees collected by the airlines and other businesses in the airport facility. Sky Harbor is expected to have 45 -50 million people using the airport by 2013, and the eighteen car train fleet system is expected to help minimize traffic congestion at and near the airport and will greatly encourage greater use of the growing mass transit system underway in Phoenix and in the adjacent suburbs that will undergo further additional expansion in the coming years. Airports in Denver and Dallas have rail systems. A commuter rail line connecting Phoenix to Tucson is in the planning as well. Phoenix and Maricopa County voters authorized a vast project including highway construction and expansion in the region in 2004 that will be underway until 2025.http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0323train0323.html
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