It's a long story but in shorthotass6gt said:why vote down light rail? yeah during construction, it's going to suck
There is no room for it.
They are going to take away existing streets to make this rail system. We have traffic problems now and they want to take roads away!
They want to take out all left hand turns out of down town. That and the cost was said to be around 6 billion!
This on top of the tollroads. No thanks.
And there were other reasons.