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No not really
I would suggest that zero cities of 350,000 or less have any serious plans for mass transit. It's simply too expensive and too long term for local governments to sell to the public. I live in a city of 350,000 people and there is a zero percent chance that they will successfully build a light rail system, ever. And we are one of the sprawliest of the sprawls. If anyone needed rapid cheap non car based transportation it's us. Even at highway speed it can take 40 minutes to get from one side of the city to the other. And we have typically one of the 10 worst air qualities in the US - because of all the cars, choked traffic and overloaded roads.