Posted on 08/08/2020 4:50:25 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
The Capital Metro (Cap Metro) trains in Austin, TX run without passengers, not a single one, almost every day during the weekday. This is first hand witness knowledge over a several month period. The drivers of those trains must have one of the best jobs in the world, with high pay, health benefits and retirement, etc. and almost never a passenger with whom they have to interact.
I asked someone knowledgeable in Austin why this his happening and that person told me it is because they are receiving millions in Federal money for the trains. The thought then came, "Are they doing this in many cities just to get Federal funds?" And, where is all of that money going? Is that money being used to fund BLM and/or Anti-fa? Why is the media not reporting this?
Cue up the Casablanca video. Was bill richardson a consultant on the project since the NM rail runner was such an overwhelming success between ABQ and Santa Fe?
So why aren’t citizens of Austin using the train?
Because Austin isn’t NY or other rat warrens.
I have no clue. No media in Austin will report on it. The fare is supposed to be REAL inexpensive, from what I have been told. Someone needs to look into it. Don't know why this hasn't been done yet, except that the city is getting millions in Federal money and would probably squash whoever reports it. It is more important to lie about Garrett Foster than to report about an actual crime.
Need to ping FReepers in Texas who can tell us the story in Austin.
Because trains are germ infested annoyances is my guess.
How do I do that?
the RATS here whined that there is no mass transit in the county
so millions was spent for EMPTY buses yo run all day, it’d be cheaper to give FREE taxi rides than having empty buses.
wait we don’t have taxi’s...
Because trains are germ infested annoyances is my guess.
Probably not, if no one was riding in them.
Same reasons people don’t ride the Metro in Houston. In the first place they go where government wants them to go which means campaign donors use their influence to get routes and stops to their advantage. Where does all that sales tax money go? At the other end of the economic spectrum, the people who use them are not the people one would necessarily want their family to be around. Then there is the weather factor, hot and humid 4 block walks to one’s destination after the ride, or rain. Now you got the COVID. Oh yeah, have you ever seen a police officer actually on the bus with you and those thugs in the back. And you can’t carry legally on them. What could possibly go wrong?
Because Texans like to drive.
I wouldn't call those carpetbaggers in Austin Texans, would you?
But not native.
"If you fled your failed state for economic opportunities in Texas, do not vote your failed state ways."
Sorry, but no one can call themself a Texan unless they are 5th Generation.
Everyone else is a carpetbagger.
I’ve got an aunt in San Antonio who could have joined the DAR if she cared to—but she joined the DRT instead. She’s an old salt. Love that woman.
Same thing in San Jose, empty trains...always.
We have a nickname for them...’The shame train’.
Socialism and totalitarianism relies on Planners. They plan based upon what should-be. People should live in urban hi-rises. They should not drive dirty cars. So Planners like Mass Transit and socialist government agency groups pay for it. Dont you want the money and jobs?
They are designed to ferry the disadvantaged from their homes to jobs they dont have at work places that dont exist. Of course they run empty. Druggies that dont pay ride these in Phoenix. Other cities that didnt need them are stuck with them too. Allows housing outside the inner city.
Planners are great. Socialism is great.
You don’t get it. The train SENDS A MESSAGE when it runs (with or without passengers). It says that Austin cares so much about the environment that they’re willing to build a massively expensive train system to GET PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR CARS.
Is it really your their fault that some people just ‘don’t get it’?
Light rail in Houston goes from nowhere to nowhere. And it was built to wreck into cars to get them off the road.
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