Dallas built a light rail about ten years ago.
The first tracks went towards the West into blue collar worker territory.
The last of about six lines went to the North white collar afluent area.
The busiest line is the North line into the afluent area, its ridership
is about five times that of the West line.
Actually the only line that is profitable.
That only proves that driving your expensive car in heavy traffic is less
desirable than leaving it at home and reading the Wall Street Journal on
the way to work.
I've never ridden it ............... wonder if they have a Starbucks on
board?

Stan Wilder

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:35:14 -0700 John Brush <jbrush@AROS.NET> writes:
> >Here in Salt Lake, light rail has passed with flying colors...the
> >Olympics would not have been the same without it. Now there is
> serious
> >pressure to build it to connect Ogden and Provo (40 & 50 miles no.
> and
> >so. of SL) to reduce both traffic congestion and pollution. All
> the
> >nay-sayers have been proven emphatically wrong.
>
> Howdy neighbor!
>
> I mightily disagree with 'passed with flying colors' and 'proven
> emphatically wrong'
>
> Just wanted to say that to the group, so they don't think we all
> agree
> that our light rail is a good thing. :-)
>
> John
> WVC, UT
>

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