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-JG-77- t1_izq3b8q wrote

Reply to comment by instantcoffee69 in Baltimore rail transit lines vs. population density by Left-Indication

Light rail was meant for politicians to be able to say “look, we built a light rail” and not much else. It was built on the cheapest route they could find which happened to be on an old railroad that didn’t serve many dense areas. The metro was built in a similar way, it just happens that the old rail corridor used for metro happened to serve denser areas than the light rail

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wbruce098 t1_izrb1ro wrote

This exactly. The limited routes only make sense for a sliver of the population, and the whole thing stinks of “well we wanted one, but it’s getting prohibitively expensive so we stopped”, a la Honolulu’s monorail, a travesty that began construction over a decade ago, and is now about to open up its first section, a 10 mile stretch of rail that stops about 8 miles outside the airport and doesn’t quite reach Honolulu proper, much less the tourist areas like Waikiki, making it almost completely useless.

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