And in your estimation, is Philly one of those handful of big cities that uses it enough?
My understanding is that the Federal Transit Admin policy is to fund new mass transit systems (in, generally, sun belt cities) over funding old systems that may have legitimate expansion needs or even major overhaul needs.
In such an instance, older infrastructure in cities like Philly crumbles...exactly the cities that have a population that is used to living near the transit and taking it everyday moreso than convincing sprawled out sun belt suburbanites to use their shiny new light rails.
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