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