<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">FYI -- Notice that although it has a station-rich "Intensification Corridor" (as the picture suggests), most of its length appears to be along a "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">berm beside a busy freeway<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">" thus great;ly decreasing average transit time. Our rail right-of-way (Ridership Corridor) would correspond to their highway berm. Also notice (if average transit time is fast enough, etc.) that ridership greatly exceeded predictions!</span></span></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; ">Robert</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "><b>An excerpt:</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong>Riding The Train<br></strong>"Here in Minneapolis, riders of the Hiawatha Line readily express their support for rail transit. <b>The line’s two-car trains travel the length of the city on narrow tracks inscribed into a berm beside a busy freeway.</b> Setting out from its home station, underneath the Mall of America, the Hiawatha looks tiny, European — like a miniature tram traversing a Scandinavian city.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; ">Before it was built, critics derided the proposal as a waste of money, and a “Train to Nowhere.” But by attracting passengers who would never ride a bus, the Hiawatha is also demonstrating why light rail is the fastest-growing form of public transportation in America."</div></span></div><a href="http://apolloalliance.org/new-apollo-program/fast-track-for-national-rail-transit/">http://apolloalliance.org/new-apollo-program/fast-track-for-national-rail-transit/</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>