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The only systems in the running for this topic is Boston, St. Louis, Portland, and Denver.
Houston, Dallas, San Diego just fall right under those four. Dallas is currently expanding it's rail system. It is doubling over the entire DART area reaching from DTD to DFW airport. TOD's are springing up all over Dallas and it's suburbs as they are anticipating the new rail lines which will open between December 2009 and 2013.
Houston JUST starting expanding it's lines and they will grow from the little 7 mile line to over 40 miles of rail on 5 different lines. One will connect Uptown-Galleria to Downtown and that will be huge for that area. Like Dallas, TOD's are also being built all over Houston.
The MetroLink in St. Louis I think is okay for its size, but hopefully it will continue to expand.
The Metrolink is so lame. They tried expanding it into West County and St. Charles County but the voters denied it pretty resoundingly. It's pretty much a poor people mover until it expands and becomes a real commuter rail system.
The only systems in the running for this topic is Boston, St. Louis, Portland, and Denver.
Denver has a more extensive line than Minneapolis, but I think Minneapolis' line is great.
The Hiawatha line connects the following:
Mall of America
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport
VA Medical Hospital
University of Minnesota's West Bank
The Metrodome
Downtown Minneapolis
Nicollet Mall
New Twins stadium
The new Northstar commuter rail
Denver has a more extensive line than Minneapolis, but I think Minneapolis' line is great.
The Hiawatha line connects the following:
Mall of America
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport
VA Medical Hospital
University of Minnesota's West Bank
The Metrodome
Downtown Minneapolis
Nicollet Mall
New Twins stadium
The new Northstar commuter rail
Those are great. But I think they need to expand their system more to be up there with Denver, Portland, Boston, and St. Louis. Minneapolis is in the same tier as Dallas, Houston, San Diego and San Francisco.
why are people voting for San diegos light rail it dosent do anything really it doseont take commuters were they need to go anyway its as lame as Houstons light rail. The only places it goes to thats specail is downtown petco park baseball stadium and qualcomm stadium were the chargers are at and thats pretty much it nobady even uses the trolly in san diego it only gets utilized during special events.
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