Mayor Michael McGinn has supported building light rail from downtown to Ballard and West Seattle.

Giambrone secured over $8 billion in new funding to build light rail into areas of the city currently not served by rapid transit.

Workers could enter the zone only to build the roads and rail, leaving no other permanent structures.

It built the California Cars as well as other rail passenger cars and light rail.

Population growth and job growth was spread out in less dense suburbs where capital requirements for building new rail were too high compared to the potential ridership.

Rather than build either subways or light rail, the plan would build a network of innovative maglevs to ring Metro Toronto.

The Obama administration announced $823 million in federal stimulus spending to build high-speed rail for the southern half of Wisconsin.

"They think if you build light rail, people will steal their TV's and get on the light rails," Mr. Bowen said.

Through its FasTracks initiative, RTD is working to rapidly build light rail and bus rapid transit.

If we don't build inter-city rail, we'll need an insane number of airports and highways, none of which are particularly green.