What recent events in Phoenix, Arizona stimulated the engineer's brain?

In Phoenix, Arizona, the bureaucrats are trying to get the area residents to vote in March 2000 to be tax themselves an additional $1.35 billion to build a 35 mile long Light Rail system.  This system would consume millions in studies before construction would begin in the year 2006 and wouldn't be completed until 2010.  When completed, it is claimed the Light Rail would carry 60,000 people per day.  If the average trip was 10 miles long this would represent 600,000 passenger miles per day.  This number is 2.4% of the current (not the year 2010) Greater Phoenix Area's daily commuter traffic of 25 million passenger miles.  Newspaper articles brag that even with stops every mile that the Light Rail would average "almost 20" miles per hour (17 mph in reality).  

Sounds pretty useless, doesn't it?  Can we use our brains to come up with a simpler, much lower cost, faster system?

Learn that $1,000,000 can buy a complete 1-mile system with train set that has a cruise speed capability of 25 mph.

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Footnotes:
Check out Custom Locomotive in the Chicago area at: www.customloco.com    They supply many variations of amusement park trains.