UnrealScorpion

The airport is vital for securing commercial growth, while the townhall is practically necessary, a town of this size can't get away with not having one. With a large commercial base in the city, we'll be able to get the other facilities in time without much problem.

well it looks like the Elevated Rail was a great success. Really looks good in the city.

I got a suggestion. How about some estimated city budget figures, and estimated costs for each system? That would be neat since spending too much money (like say we spent to much on the subway) it may have helped the transportation woes a lot, but then maybe our city gets approved for a major league ballpark and gasp we can't afford it. I did say earlier that it looks like Subway's gonna win, but I didn't realize the race was so close, could go to either really.

The big city I live nearest to is saint louis, and it has an interesting situation. The big city itself is transitioning from a sprawl-like setup to more of a urbanism setup. There's exceptions, as high traffic areas like the Edward Jones Dome, Busch Stadium, and Anaheiser-Busch Breweries aren't gonna leave their road-friendly setup, but the rest of the main city is ready to transition. I've noticed a lot more busses going in and they have been having talks of some sort of rail system. In case you didn't know, St Louis lost population every year from 1990 to 2003, in the 90s it had the sharpest decline in population of any city in the US, it lost over 40% of it's population! Only recently has this population loss plateaued, with a slight incline. Everybody moved to one of the many smaller cities surrounding Saint Louis. Just to contrast this figure, not only does Missouri have the city with the sharpest population decline of the 90s, but it also has the city with the sharpest increase. Earth City, about 20 miles or so from Downtown Saint Louis, is America's fastest growing city. I remember when I was a little kid when it was just a relaxed suburb, and now it feels like it is a part of the city. Even though the population hasn't changed in the area much overall, it seems like the actaul size of the city really has grown, as a lot of small suburbs just took off. I guess you could say that St Louis is a big victim of America's rush to the 'burbs. St Louis's thick, gritty downtown of the old, with it's dangerous project folk is no more in some spots of the city, because there's nobody there

The subway is the most convenient, but also most expensive. Perhaps we should go for primarily Elevated Rail instead, and use elevated rail/subway transitions when the Elevated rail would get in the way? If you are just doing a quick lookthrough for the votes: Elevated Rail is my final answer.