Nothing in the rest of the article redeemed it.
The truth of the matter is that if it were up to private companies, they'd put up their hard earned money to create toll roads. However, nobody ever wants to put up private money to build light rail. It's a boondoggle that can only be built with massive amounts of subsidies from people who will never ride it. And only after they underestimate the cost and overestimate ridership.
But look at all the union jobs it creates. Unions are the big problem for all railroads. When Amtrak was first started, after the continuing bailout of Penn Central, the unions negotiated a deal so that if any union worker were laid off by Amtrak that worker would get six years severence.
Incidentally, my first comment was intended as humor. Obviously, not very successful.