We have for 25 years noted that we need to have more roads paralleling US 29. Hydraulic Road to Rio Road and Route 743 serves that function for people who don't mind living west. Right now, Park Street and the Greenbrier neighborhood serve that function for people east of town. It is blindness to think that we can function without more roads paralleling 29. 4. To say that we should have a light rail system is to ignore the realities.
Light rail is expensive.
There is no money available for it. There is no place to put it. We can't make our bus system come close to profitability, and we would never be able to do so with light rail. The studies that have been done on light rail, or subways, or anything else that runs on a track, have shown that they only begin to make sense at MUCH higher traffic figures than we could possibly generate. We have hashed and re-hashed this issue for 25 years.