Electric trains possible for area

The Birmingham area, that is... I'm all for public transportation, and the US 280 highway one of them would travel along needs some sort of congestion relief, but let's be realistic. These big projects never work. At least, they're all huge money losers, and the real traffic on them is always much lower than the projections. Jefferson County would be much wiser to do something about the dreadful bus service. They are talking about buses in some areas:

Bus service was highly touted in the study for the southwest corridor because of the number of people who depend on buses for transportation.

I'll translate for out-of-towners... Bessemer, Ensley, and other towns southwest of Birmingham will get buses, because that's all "those people" -- African-Americans and poor whites -- deserve or are used to. (Can you tell I grew up in Bessemer?) The same goes for the more prosperous areas to the north of town. The upper-middle-class commuter types who live south or southeast of the city will get fancy new electric trains. (Which they will reject in order to drive their SUVs.)