MetroRail really is coming

From statesman, October 6, 2008...

This week, the MetroRail brand became more than a pretty marketing ploy in a PowerPoint presentation. The Red Line went from being, well, just a red line and some black dots on a map to 32 miles of welded steel and nine actual stations. The U.S. government gave the go-ahead, Capital Metro officials stood up in a room and talked about details with a confidence I hadn't seen before, construction ramped up and the agency set an opening date: March 30.

For the first time since the black-and-white-photo era, we're going to have an urban rail line here. For real.

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