Transit Expert: Light-Rail System Is Vital to Development of Austin, Texas.

From: Austin American-Statesman (Austin, Texas) (viaKnight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) | Date: October 16, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: R. Michelle Breyer

Oct. 16--An audience packed with builders, developers, and other business and civic leaders heard a tough message Wednesday: Austin is losing out by not having light rail.

"You've got to get with this," said Kenneth Hughes, president of Kenneth Hughes Inc., a Dallas firm that specializes in transit-related developments. "Austin has more to offer a rail system -- and a rail system has more to offer Austin -- than any city in the Unit...

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