[hfx_chris]

Trenton, NJ (83,923)
Salt Lake City, Utah (178,858)
Tacoma, Washington (201,700)
Jersey City, NJ (241,791)
Buffalo, NY (279,745)
Newark, NJ (281,402)
Pittsburgh, PA (312,819)
St. Louis, MO (353,837)
Minneapolis, MN (387,970)
Sacramento, CA (467,343)
Cleveland, Ohio (478,403)

Close:
Portland, Oregon (562,690)
Denver, Colorado (566,974)
Boston, MA (590,763)

And that's just the United States. If you want I can go through Europe and Asia as well.


And yes I realize HRM is a lot larger geographically than a lot of the examples I've given above, and that a lot of the ones given above are populations for the city proper.. but it still gives a good idea that light rail can work in a lot of places of similar sizes to Halifax.
Oh, and all of the cities I've listed above have light rapid transit systems, not trollycoaches or streetcars.