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Old Posted May 6, 2010, 8:06 PM
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I love NAC, but that's a terrible article.

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With the exception of a single line added in Los Angeles during the 1990s, there has been nothing built since,
Not true.

One line or another of DC Metro has been under construction almost continuously since the 1980s, including all through the 90s and 2000s, and still today. Also, New York is building its 2nd Avenue subway.

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It is in that context that the Maryland Senate’s Budget and Taxation Committee last month asked the state’s MTA transit agency to reconsider its current plans to use light rail on two proposed transit corridors
Also not true.

That request was a thinly-veiled attempt by transit opponents to kill a couple projects that are fully planned and waiting for funding by sending them back to the drawing board. The action had nothing to do with trying to get better transit and everything to do with trying to stop the state from spending money on anything but highways.

By the way, both the Purple Line and Baltimore Red Line light rail proposals run either underground or in elevated sections through the most busy parts their routes.
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