The fact is the entire transit industry is going through a major disruptive technology change to Smart electric vehicles and everything rail pretends to be based on is going up in smoke. All worldwide transit trends favor rapid deployment of Smart electric vehicles.
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The same thing is happening in the brick and mortar retail market. Everyone is going out of business because buying stuff has totally changed in just a few years. Nothing about rail and TOD is based upon reality and rapidly changing marketplace and demographics. Rail and TOD is OUTDATED by technology.