Waste of time and taxpayer money. There is not a light rail system or passenger rail system that has worked in the last 50-70 years. They are all money eaters of the taxpayers funds and they can never sustain or justify their existance.
“all money eaters of the taxpayers funds and they can never sustain or justify their existance.”
Not true. Check the Utah Transit statistics. UTA is a profit center for the last 5 years. I will have to admit though that having federal funds for the Olympics and using them to expedite the building of the UTA system really helped. I call it a system because it is all 3, heavy passenger rail service, light rail, and bus combined into one neat package. They also provide funds to car poolers so they can buy 15 passenger vans. They lease these vans to a group, and collect the money as passengers to pay for the vans. An extremely successful and profitable business for UTA.
I have met many professionals (doctors, nurses, bankers and University students who just love riding the bus/train system.
10s of thousands of skier use the bus system to go to big and little Cottonwood canyon ski resorts, saving themselves the hassle of driving the canyon roads and having to put on chains and dodge avalanches.
....Bob
I consider myself very fortunate to have grown up in the '60s when classic muscle cars were king: Mustangs, GTOs, 'Vettes, etc. etc. etc.
But the days of cheap gasoline are over,
Full size SUVs will never make a comeback, let alone the muscle cars of my youth.
The GOP is STUPID and myopic for opposing construction of modern passenger rail.
As gasoline becomes more costly, more Americans will demand efficient rail transit. And the GOP is on the wrong side of progress.