Question
Answer the following about ongoing extensions of rail transit in US cities, for 10 points each.
[10e] This city aims to finish its D Line Subway Extension project, which will serve Koreatown and Mid-Wilshire, before it hosts the Olympics in 2028.
ANSWER: Los Angeles, California [or LA]
[10m] This man, the US’s only incumbent Black governor, has vowed to complete a long-delayed Purple Line. He revived a light rail Red Line for his state’s largest city that his predecessor, Larry Hogan, had killed.
ANSWER: Wes Moore [or Westley Watende Omari Moore] (of Maryland)
[10h] This urban area’s Skyline system, the US’s first with platform screen doors and driverless trains, opened in outlying areas in 2023 and won’t extend to its downtown until 2031. Its mayor, Rick Blangiardi, has dealt with homeless encampments in Old Stadium Park.
ANSWER: Honolulu, Hawaii [or City and County of Honolulu; accept Oʻahu because technically Urban Honolulu is a census-designated place and the whole island has unified city-county government]
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Summary
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 04/19/2025 | Y | 21 | 17.14 | 91% | 67% | 14% |
Data
| Chicago B | Virginia | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Illinois B | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois A | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana | Florida | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| LSE | Ottawa | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan | WUSTL B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota | British Columbia | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| RIT | NYU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Northwestern | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Ohio State | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Stanford | Virginia Tech | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Arizona State | Texas | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn State | Toronto C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley A | Georgia Tech | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia State | UCF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cornell A | Vanderbilt | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina B | Waterloo B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Winona State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Iowa State | Yale | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |