Durham-Orange light rail one step closer to billions in federal dollars

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3. I currently live in Santa Fe, NM.

And while I love living here, the bus system leaves a bit to be desired. Although in fairness, there's a reason for that. The population is maybe 70,000, and since most people here, like most Americans in this country, have cars and tend to use them. However, I did finally figure out that I only need to walk a quarter mile to a bus stop to take a bus to get downtown, which I do on occasion. I have a friend who works downtown (I'm retired) and I sometimes meet her at the end of her work day and we'll go out for a movie or dinner or some such.

This city also has an excellent senior van service, and I've known people who've used it and it seems to be quite good. Someday when I (inevitably) will need to stop driving, I'll start using it.

If I ever relocate it will be to a city with much better public transportation. In my 20's I lived in the Washington DC area, and for my first seven years there had no car. This was before the Metro opened, but the busses were excellent. I only bought a car because I decided to go back to school and the logistics of the bus service to the junior college and to work just didn't cut it.

I'm a huge fan of public transportation.