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Great analysis Matt, as always.

I notice that the system length numbers Los Angeles paint a misleading picture. Yes, there is only 17 miles of heavy rail, which is pretty dismal. But when you factor in light rail the system length stretches to to 79 miles.

Even with the $40 billion worth of rail projects that will be built here over the next decade, only one line (Purple) is heavy rail. The other 8 new lines and extensions are all light rail. The way LA is so spread out, spending money blanketing the city in light rail just makes more sense than building a few heavy rail lines. This has always been, and will always be a light rail city.

Not that any of this is relevant to DC, so my apologies for meandering. I just can't help but stick up for my newly adopted city :)

by Chris Loos on Jul 29, 2010 9:43 pm • link • report

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