I’m reminded of the light rail boondoggle in Austin. Maybe it’s an inherent problem with democracy: Yes means Yes forever; No only means No until the next election.
They have the same thing here in Houston.
Besides the miserable thing created by the light rail here (reduced street by two driving lanes and stops at every RR crossing now as well as the fact that it KILLS people unheeding the warnings), IKE just proved another thing wrong: it is electric and does not run when the power is out. What was the fix? Running buses to parallel the routes. Could have done that without all the money needlessly spent on rail.