Artist's conception of a light rail transit line running north on Plymouth Avenue near Brown Street, in the shadow of the Kodak building. Illustration by Otto Vondrak.
Rail transit serves a variety of purposes for a wide range of unique metropolitan transit and land use situations. Metropolitan areas of all sizes across the country are turning to rail transit to:
- Revitalize cities and villages and stabilize suburbs
- Provide a first-class transit system
- Attract new riders to transit
- Provide true mobility for all
- Decrease unemployment
- Provide new transportation capacity
- Preserve the environment
- Preserve community character
- Reduce expensive road building
- Protect the Environment
- Reduce pollution levels
- Reduce dependence on foreign produced oil
- Increase production of domestically produced electricity
- Keep the EPA from designating Rochester as a nonattainment area