Funny, the sites I am looking at say the Federal Government paid 60% of that light-rail line, and the rest came from a mix of state, county, and airport monies.
That $424 million would probably not have gone into bridge reconstruction, it probably would have been awarded to another light-rail system in the US, if the Hiawatha Line had not been built.
In Kansas City, we have those pushing for it as well and it will be a useless boondoggle and polital bone to urban dwellers. Usless in a non-geogaphically locked community.
Leftists hate sprawl, because it (1) limits their large city government control and (2) works against forcing people into leftist rabbit warrens.
If you want it, by all means vote for it and pay the BMW cost per user. I do hate seeing federal dollars from all taxpayers nationally go into that crap.