[Mr Downtown]

There's not a light rail line in this scheme.

Thank heavens. As we've discussed before, this corridor is just not a good place to substitute light rail for buses. It's a corridor with riders only on one side. Putting a rail line in LSD would force people to walk substantial distances to new stations, wait in unpleasant environments, and take a slower ride downtown because they'd have to stop every half-mile. The current zone-loading series of bus routes might be more difficult for the newcomer or tourist to grok, but it serves the daily riders very well.