It's definitely not their first line but Denver (RTD) seems to know how to build stations in the middle of nowhere (something Austin isn't doing with these lines except for the green line). If we build it they will come. To be fair I think they work on a system more similar to Dallas. Denver has a metro of only 900,000 more people or about where Austin will be when this is completed. They also have a full system. We have zilch, nada, ne rien, nothing. This will be our stepping stone and sadly we have to go big because of the damn idiotic voters of 2000 voting no. If this bill fails the next one is going to need to be even bigger and so on. We are planning for the future with this rail and based on projections this is just a part of what we will need by the time this project is completed.
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