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Originally Posted by ahealy
Forgive my laziness, but is SA slated to have rail on the ballot anything down the road?
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Rail is the third rail of politics in SA, no politician is willing to touch it.
Funding for mass transit just won a vote to be increased in SA, that will start to happen in a few years' time. Funding will still be less than in other big Texas cities!
What the transit system is talking about is someday maybe having something they like to call a "trackless train" which is an articulated bus that will have its own road. One reason they're proposing this is because they think it will be cheaper and just as effective. Another reason they're proposing this is because any rail transit system built in SA must go to the people to be voted on, it can't be a decision made by the transit authority.