On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Dorie Rae Gallagher wrote:

> Rail really should be going down 35W..I don't understand why there is
> not rail instead of Rapid Bus. Someone said it was due to land available
> along 35...Another bus lane and shoulder is about what rail would need.

A bus lane can be bait and switched. Take land and money under cover of
the bus, then after a few months, yield to the (orchestrated)
"overwhelming public demand" to fill the bus lane with cars. LRT can't be
switched, so of course the highway men don't want it there.

--David Shove
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