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Perhaps re purpose or utilize road ROW. It will have a high cost due to lack of existing rail ROW but far cheaper and likely to succeed than buying up properties for a rail ROW.

The computer rail could be built elevated in middle of street ROW. Think something along the line of what the rail in Hawaii is doing. Rail could be put in the center of freeway ROW and take advantage of the grade separation the freeway ROW has. Either is not a perfect solution but at least gets a rail network going.