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Does anyone know the next city to get Heavy or Light rail. I'm talking about a city that currently has no rail. Not a city that already have lines or currently building but a city who's growth is exhibiting a need for rail transit.
My Guess would be the Raleigh-Durham-Cary-Chapel Hill NC area or even Kansas City Metro
Before long, all cities, big and small, will have light rail.
Cities love to compete with one another, building the tallest skyscraper, building the biggest sports arena, having the biggest/finest museum, and cities don't like being criticized or embarrassed or shamed.
That, alone, will propel more light rail. I can see it coming: This city bragging about how many rail lines they have, another city bragging their rail cars are fancier or more colorful, another bragging more of their lines go underground, etc. etc.
Tourists will also help to bring this about. As tourists become more addicted to traveling to cities with better mass transit/light rail they'll get spoiled, and begin to demand it in their travels, being met outside the Airport terminal by a train and looking for hotels within a short walk of a train stop, leading to car-less vacations.
I'm taking one in Dec. Gonna try out Dallas' new light rail system, and then onward to Denver, Salt Lake City and Sacramento, and try theirs and compare. I'm getting to that point in my travels: No light rail, no come.
My guesses for future light rail lines: Milwaukee, San Antonio (now that Austin/Dallas/Houston have it, why be left behind?) Cincinnati.
Las Vegas? Oh please! Where people love their cars enough to sleep in them at night?
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Tucson will be getting a modern streetcar line soon. The Federal Transit Administration gave Tucson the authority to procure vehicles. United Streetcar (subsidiary of Portland Iron Works) of Portland will be building the streecars.
Seattle. They just opened the first leg of their light rail line from (almost) the airport to downtown, and have future expansion planned to the University District and to the eastside, ending in Redmond. This makes sense because the Seattle - Bellevue - Redmond and Seattle - Northside areas are the most congested in the area.
Seattle sorta had heavy rail but it really only ran along the coast, from downtown Seattle to Everett, and almost nobody took it.
Seattle. They just opened the first leg of their light rail line from (almost) the airport to downtown, and have future expansion planned to the University District and to the eastside, ending in Redmond. This makes sense because the Seattle - Bellevue - Redmond and Seattle - Northside areas are the most congested in the area.
Seattle sorta had heavy rail but it really only ran along the coast, from downtown Seattle to Everett, and almost nobody took it.
In 2009, Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle, with seven other governors of Midwestern states and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley have joined in bipartisan support of a high-speed rail network that would link cities around the region. A 0.5% sales tax has been proposed for the counties of Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha by the Southeast Wisconsin Regional Transit Authority to fund an extension of the Chicago Metra commuter rail from Kenosha to downtown Milwaukee.
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