On 08-26-97 RICK JONES wrote to DON DELLMANN... 
 
 RJ> -> As I mentioned before, I wish light rail would work, I wish 
 RJ> passenger 
 RJ> -> trains 
 RJ> -> were profitable  
 
 RJ>    I'm not so sure about that. It's my understanding that San Diego's
 RJ> light  
 RJ> rail/trolley system operates at a profit and has been since a short 
 RJ> time after  
 RJ> it opened over a decade ago. 
 RJ>    OTOH,  LA's attempts at trying to rebuild a portion of the PE 
 RJ> system seem  
 RJ> to be filled with one disaster after another. 
 
 I think that's the whole answer, that some will work, and others just won't. 
 Depends on the route that's taken, mostly. Buffalo has a light rail system 
 that runs a couple of miles from University of Buffalo to downtown, and it's 
 always in the red. Just doesn't go where it's needed. The original idea was 
 good but, of course, some politician got involved who didn't have any idea  
 what was going on.  
 Same way here in Rochester. They've got another study going, costing another 
 (if I remember right) $50,000. Makes about the fifth one done in the last 
 decade. This latest proposal by the pol's involves running an east-west line 
 
 between two shopping malls, with a junction to a north south line that would 
 
 go to, amazingly enough, another shopping mall. Now, wouldn't it make more  
 sense to run from a suburb into the malls?  
                                  K 
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