Mayor Dave's trolley plan is an extremely weak idea. The trolley will make only a tiny difference in overall transit ridership, but cost tens of millions of dollars to build and operate. The feds won't help. Far less costly alternatives exist that can exceed the trolley's ridership, but these are being ignored by the politically stacked committee reviewing the issue. Building the trolley would also drain the bus company budget, hurting Metro bus riders over time. In almost every case, you can increase transit usage far more, per dollar of expenditure, with bus than with rail. Most trolley riders would...