Light rail will stimulate redevelopment along the rail line, protecting our tax base and reducing urban sprawl. Light rail will protect existing businesses and neighborhoods from the alternative. Nationwide, about 50 houses and businesses are bulldozed for every mile of freeway constructed. Cap Metro s light rail proposal will probably not require the destruction of a single house or business. There s more.
Rail travel is safer than bus travel, and a lot safer than automobile travel.
Light rail will improve air quality. Rail makes better use of urban land, by reducing the need for ugly, expensive parking garages. The rails will be laid down in three-block segments, so nobody s business will be hurt for more than a few weeks. And, yes, the latt -drinking dotcommers are going to love it. It ll be fun.