List of US+Canada rail transit currently under construction

[llamaorama]

Nobody is going to ride that Mid-America airport extension. What a giant load of pork.

The North-South line could also work as BRT rather than rail, it has so many stops and is mostly at-grade. They wouldn't really get value out of rail, and BRT would allow other bus routes to trunk onto whatever infrastructure is added.

Instead of spending available federal funds on building new rail lines, has any thought ever been given to improving existing lines by re-routing them, grade separations, eliminating curves, relocating stations whose original sites didn't work out, etc?

Many light rail systems built in the 1990s and 2000s made cost-cutting decisions that reduced potential ridership by making them slower or limit frequency. Some stations were built for bus route connections that don't exist anymore, or were built for some prospective urban development projects or to serve employment centers that don't exist anymore. And then on the flip side, there's opportunities for new infill stations to serve destinations along the route that weren't there when the line opened.