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    nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:   
      
   > 	Little going on that hasn't been chewed over a bit in the news   
   > so let me dig up this Buffalo, New York blogger who's grumbling that   
   > upstate New York doesn't get any useful economic development despite   
   > all sorts of `silver-bullet' programs supposed to whip up the economy.   
   > It draws on ``Marge Vs The Monorail'' for support for the idea that no   
   > government project to stimulate the economy has ever stimulated it   
   > ever anywhere, I suppose except for that whole ending-the-Great-   
   > Depression and Winning-World-War-II stuff.   
      
   Interestingly, it contrasts Buffalo and Charlotte, and mentions "Marge   
   vs. the Monorail," but doesn't mention something related that Buffalo   
   and Charlotte have in common:  they both have modern light-rail systems,   
   something that isn't as sexy as a monorail, but is more useful in   
   actually developing the economy by actually getting people from place to   
   place.   
      
   http://www.nfta.com/metro/route_rail.asp   
   http://www.charmeck.org/Departments/CATS/LYNX/home.htm   
      
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