# Light Rail: What works for Raleigh

**URL:** <https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/light-rail-what-works-for-raleigh/357>\
**Category:** The Pub\
**Created:** [July 4, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/light-rail-what-works-for-raleigh/357 "2018-07-04T19:24:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![keita](https://community.dtraleigh.com/user_avatar/community.dtraleigh.com/keita/32/354_2.png) [@keita](https://community.dtraleigh.com/u/keita)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 3:43am UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/light-rail-what-works-for-raleigh/357/194 "2019-01-23T03:43:04Z")

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> [@Rail Line to Fuquay-Varina](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/rail-line-to-fuquay-varina/201/125):
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> I’m so sick of seeing this thread keep popping up. […] Why the hell would I want to take a train […]?

Because it’s not about _you_.

Just because _you_ aren’t interested in a public transit project doesn’t mean _society_ isn’t interested. If there are people who may want and/or need something like that, then they are the target customers for such a solution. That’s who it’s for.

Besides, you can’t just think of each little town or area as its own isolated system; nothing ever happens in a vacuum. Fuquay is growing at all as a function of the Triangle (esp. Raleigh)'s growth. Wake Forest is entering Raleigh’s gravitational field, and Fayetteville may eventually do so as well in some distant, better-connected future ([if the state DoT has their way, anyways](https://www.newsobserver.com/news/traffic/article206879989.html)). This means more exchanges of people and jobs, new variables for development and change in the area, new trends for businesses or resident behavior patterns… you see what I mean, right?

If you want to truly be a responsible citizen, understand what’s going on, and stay ahead of the curve, then you need to understand. It doesn’t matter (and no one cares) if you don’t care -not because of any malicious reason, because someone else probably does care. And if you keep following that chain of cause and effect, there’s a good chance you lead back to something you do care about, in a way you don’t expect.

After all, isn’t that what we’re here on this site to talk about at the end of the day?

PS: speaking of people who’d care about a regional rail link (totally on board with the idea by @orulz and @Nickster’s Fayetteville extension btw), what would it take to do a traffic/demand analysis about that? and would that help make a better case for building a rail system? …because, at least to me, a lot of traffic analyses in today’s white papers seem oversimplified and off.

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