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Posted by WillD on Sat Jun 17 22:52:17 2006, in response to Re: Study Re: Here comes Staten Is. Light Rail, posted by tydev417 on Sat Jun 17 22:17:49 2006. If you mean new heavy rail trunk line in the 50 states, that'd undoubtedly be the Los Angeles Red Line back in 1993. As you and others have noted every other heavy rail system in the country is just building extensions while cities which previously had no transit are choosing LRT. We're stuck with 10 cities in the country with heavy rail subway systems, all while the number of light rail systems keeps increasing. Whether this bodes well for a future in which the public becomes more transit dependent is debatable. The possibility certainly exists of using LRTs to cheaply implement transit and spark demand for further services. Look at what HBLRT's sucess has done for the folks along the Tenafly line, NJT and Mr. Warrington are all ready to renig on their promise to run the line up there, but the good citizens of Bergen County are not going to let them run off without giving them a train. That kind of attitude can be great in getting the massive quantities of funding required for heavy rail construction. |
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