It’s shortsighted and thick-skulled to not believe rail benefits the entire region. Yes, cars will always be the choice for most people, especially in the burbs, but why wouldn’t all rail corridor residents want the option to skip traffic? Let the localities decide if they want a stop or not, and if they do, really put some thought into what surrounds the station so the citizens are satisfied that it will help them and not hurt them. Where I live outside of Baltimore, the heavy rail metro train ends about 10 miles away, and every now and then there’s crime and these country people will start facebooking about “ever since the metro…”, which is really just poorly veiled racism. I mean, I have never actually heard of any incidents where a metro-riding criminal took a train to the burbs did some criming and then waited for the train to get back to the city. Anyway, point is, it serves people from my community, 10 miles away. My county borders Balt Co and voters here enthusiastically rejected bringing the metro line here years ago and still would today. But I know lots of neighbors that work in the city that use it, and yes it serves a great purpose to a large number of commuters…and that eases the load on the roads too. People who take metro like it a lot more than sitting in traffic, 100%. Before I moved here I was in Huntersville, and I guarantee a good number of people in the 77 corridor would LOVE a train option. if I’m a politician and that is my district, I am going all-in for rail and I am dedicated to making sure it works for the localities that choose to have a station.