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Light Rail is so hot and sexy. I want it. I need it.
it’s sexy when done properly.
unfortunately transit projects are usually done improperly.
Wow, I can just imagine something like that making its way along Biscayne Blvd, out of downtown and straight up to the county line in Aventura. It would be amazing.
So pretty much metropolitan Pheonix has over 1 million less in population than metropolitan Miami, yet they have a new, upgraded light rail system, when we don’t even have one to begin with.