A stadium's life span is 20 years, like a highway. But a light-rail system can last for 100 years. It can affect how your region grows and prospers for generations to come.'' Light rail's greatest challenge might not be its price tag but its insistence that we must look ahead and commit to a long-term solution. I don't think we're very good at that kind of planning these days. But in this case we must.
Light rail is a big, complex answer to a lot of our problems.
But it's also a big, complex route to a better future. We must get aboard now. The Cincinnati Enquirer , a Gannett Co. Inc. newspaper.