So few people are on the MAX trains in Portland that a coyote boarded the train and sat down, unmolested.
Rail rojects suck up so much cash from the Feds that there is none left over for roads and bridges.
Can't have that!
Public transportation is a nightmare. I spent all last year taking trains and busses in Stockholm Sweden. A city which has this type of transit down to a science. You still have to walk 900 miles to get to and into a train. Some stops I had to take three escalators down or up just to get to my platform to catch a train, never mind the four or five blocks to get on it. Many times I’d have to take a bus to get to a train to get to another bus just to get to my location. Painful, painful way of life these socialists make for everyone. And somehow they convince a whole lot of lemmings, it’s GREAT!
Freedom to go where you want when you want...without getting their permission.
Can't have that!
My husband loves the light rail here in Los Angeles, but he only ever uses it/ goes downtown to Jury Duty every two years. I would never use it, but I don’t go downtown either.
They have to subsidize light-rail to the gils to get anyone to ride it, but the libs say ‘that is always the case.’ I think it is STUPID.
Rail is the triple play of liberal politics:
1. Construction companies get paid tons of money for union labor to build these giant systems.
2. These systems require boatloads of maintenance, all of which is supplied by public sector union labor.
3. The jobs are used to prop up employment data stats.
In the end, transit has never made sense for any community below a certain population density. I can’t imagine, for example, NYC without the subway, or Boston without the T. For me, Chicago could have lived without the L, but honest men can differ on this.
Rail is PERMANENT employment for democrats. The more rail the better from the left’s perspective. This is why AGW is such a compelling premise for the left. It ties every liberal sinecure program together in a pseudo-scientific package.
People do not like being scheduled....There’s a reason why you see millions of cars on the road everyday with only 1 person in it. It’s called freedom.....
They needed a study?
So few people are on the MAX trains in Portland that a coyote boarded the train and sat down, unmolested.
The Tri Met or whatever it’s called doesn’t go anywhere you want to go, like for instance the biggest mall in the portland area, the Washington Square Mall.
I'm a skeptic of light rail in general, so Whenever I'm in Portland (or any other city that has a light rail system) I make a point of checking out those trains to see if they're being used.
Unlike, say, Denver or LA, in Portland I have found that the trains are generally carrying a lot of passengers, and there are lots of folks waiting at the stations.
Not saying that these "researchers" are lying ... but I suspect they're massaging their results to fit their pre-conceived notions.
Willie Green still sucks.
Doesn’t help that it only runs 4 times in the Morning and 4 Times at night