When I was a kid in Long Beach, there were tracks down the middle of one of the major boulevards.  They were out of use and everyone bitched about them being an eyesore.  Finally, sometime in the late 80s, iirc, they tore them up and re-paved, etc.  Then they decided to run the metrolink down to LB and tore up the exact same street and put in new rails for the Blue Line.  I rode it a couple months ago and meant to blog it, but my camera ran out of batteries.  I'll be taking the trip again at some point.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes