It’s 3 p.m. on a Thursday and the Jerusalem light rail is packed with secular and religious, Jew and Arab, as it heads east from the city’s Central Bus Station.

The light-rail system, once touted as a symbol of Orange County’s urban maturity, ran into opposition from neighborhoods, who didn’t want it on their streets, and critics who objected to its cost.

Capitol Hill’s new light rail station serves double duty as an art gallery. By Lyra Fontaine February 9, 2016. ... Eye-catching public art decorates the venue, which uses a symbol of the LGBT pride ...

JERUSALEM — When it opened three years ago, the Jerusalem Light Rail was hailed by city boosters as a symbol of coexistence, a whispery smooth ride across some of the most bitterly contested ...

The first service of its kind in Israel, the Jerusalem light rail was intended as a symbol of a forward-looking metropolis, a sleek, efficient and clean mode of transportation that united the city ...