Because it will delay every rail project being planned in this region and jeopardize our ability to receive Federal Funding, this amendment will function as a practical ban on all those modes of transportation which 1. runs on rails and 2. carries people. Cost is not a factor, nor is the cargo being carried as long as it is not human beings. Because the Amendment is so broadly and poorly written it will affect much more than just the streetcar.

If this amendment passes the city could build, at a cost of millions of dollars, a rail depot to store nuclear waste or styrene containers without a vote of the people. It could not however, add a ramp to Union Terminal to make it more handicap accessible without first spending up to half a million dollars to conduct an election.