As President Obama, VP Joe "Amtrak" Biden, and SecTrans LaHood will tell you, America needs more Public Transportation. Public Transit stimulates economic growth, cuts down carbon emissions, and increases the livability of the area around it. This of course means that it is a sin in the eyes of Conservatives. Yet even the state that thinks Barry Goldwater is someone to look up to, and has sent John McCain and Jon Kyl to the Senate hand-in-hand for years, has begrudgingly begun to accept that Public Transportation is a good thing. Phoenix now boasts a nascent Light Rail line to go along with a respectable bus system.
Unfortunately, there are those in the Arizona State Legislature who'd see this progress stopped, if not reversed, and the Bill to do it is on its way to passage.
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