I checked out the sights. Light rail got me where I wanted to go, on time and in one piece. You know exactly where you're going because you can look down and see the tracks. Light rail means more development, more restaurants and loft apartments. It means people can come back downtown at night.
Light rail means business.
Trains also mean fewer traffic jams, less air pollution, fewer parking nightmares and fewer drunken drivers on the road. Do we ever. Houston is beginning the process of getting light rail. The plan in motion starts with a 7-mile route from the Astrodome through the Medical Center, up Main Street to downtown. There are critics of this plan.