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Austin LRT plan criticized … by rail advocates

Customarily, in almost any urban area, you’d expect your strongest rail transit advocates to be rallying around an official rail plan as it heads toward a possible ballot initiative. But in Austin, Tex., today, that’s definitely not the case.

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San Antonio weighs a major streetcar project

In case you haven’t figured this out already, the urban rail transit mode currently in vogue these days is … streetcars! And this is a good thing, because they were generally an extremely popular and cost-effective mode in their stride, and should never have been ripped out of North America’s cities (or anywhere else for that matter). Big mistake.