[TC Rider]

So true. What would work is a high-speed monorail - above the ground, not an impediment to traffic, and possibly a better alternative to a car.

Yet the monorail in Vegas is a bust. (and it doesn't go to the airport)

Here in Raleigh they dredge up our light rail 'plans' every few years and try to shove it down our throats. They've spent a few hundred million on 'planning' and 'rights of way' but have not driven one spike yet.

And once again, it does not go to the airport.

What is it about mass transit and airports? The only airport I know of that is served is Reagan across the river from Washington.

Light rail in Raleigh has turned out to be a money machine for lawyers, designers, and planners, some of whom have connections to city politicians. Imagine that.

For some reason they believe that everyone needs to get from downtown Raleigh to downtown Durham with a stop in the middle of RTP (the regional huge office park.

The only way it would work for me would be to leave a car in the burbs and another in RTP. I believe I'm in the majority in that regard.

[DennisR]

How about this: you drive your car to a park and ride, jump on a monorail that goes 70mph (or thereabouts), get off the monorail near your destination, and have a bus take you to your office?

In Seattle, they started with light rail that goes between downtown and the airport. How many people is that going to take off of the freeways? Not many.

[Betis70]

>>What is it about mass transit and airports? The only airport I know of that is served is Reagan across the river from Washington.

Mostly true, though in San Francisco you can take BART straight to SFO. And from the south bay I could take CalTrain to millbrae and catch the last little leg of BART to SFO. That has only been true since about 2005 or 06 though.

Of course San Jose’s airport only has bus service.

[hinckley buzzard]

Chicago St Louis Baltimore and Cleveland all have lightrail from main airport to downtown. I have used all three. No doubt there are others I am unfamiliar with.

[Moose4]

They can’t even get Triangle Transit to put in enough stops in RTP or keep a transfer station out here, how are people supposed to get to their jobs in the sprawl of RTP once they get off the train? TTA lost their transfer station over near the Radisson and dropped several shuttle stops recently, including my workplace.

I’m fortunate in that I can ride a shuttle van provided by our apartment complex, due to the large number of Indian tech workers we’ve got living there. Free (well, included in the rent), convenient, easy, and saves the $2.65/gallon gas for my wife and our daughter.

}:-)4