Posted on 07/23/2010 10:31:08 AM PDT by Willie Green
And just where would these cities of which you speak, be?
Why is this in the Religion Forum?
Willie, Detroit is the result of 50 years of socialist thinking; you expect us to believe more socialist thinking will reverse the damage!
What's your rebuttal this time, Willie? Calling us "Newbies," calling us "Bigots," or threatening us with a pitchfork?
Right, it's also tens of millions in government tax breaks.
Right, it's also tens of millions in government tax breaks.
No, it runs. It just doesn’t get used all that much because there is no need for it.
Oh - my bad. All the hudreds of times I went to the RenCen, I never saw one move.
Yeah, a toy train like the one in Houston that’s had hundreds of wrecks, caused numerous businesses to fail during its prolonged construction and which the poor support through their sales taxes even though they don’t ride it - yeah, that’s the ticket.
Additional socialism in Detroit is not “going to attract young people” unless they’re parasites. And the taxpayers will pick up the huge losses typical of such a system gladly, I’m sure.
Be careful! Willie says you’re a bigot if you’re intolerant of urban transit systems.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2557026/posts?page=36#36
It’s what every Marxist does when they run out of valid arguments!
It’s probably because I have crappy bifocals.
They can’t even find the funding for a demonstration communter service on existing rail between Ann Arbor and Detroit. Even their best estimates can’t get the cost of a ticket below $70 per rider.
My brother in law works downtown in Detroit for Compuware and he says he won’t ride a train when his Toyota will get him there faster at a fraction of the cost. He’s a liberal and even he says it isn’t worth wasting the money on.
Yeah, build a toy train and money starts falling from the sky, donchaknow.
This a flat out LIE. Every one of these stupid light rail projects is a MAJOR loser. They always require HUGE taxpayer subsidies. The one here in Houston caused many businesses to fail because their customers were kept away by toy train construction. Our toy train's had over 100 wrecks, none of which were cheap or free. Our toy train has hosed downtown traffic.
The only folks who stand to make money are the "engineering" companies who make millions off of their "studies", the very few who manipulate property values under the table, and of course the bloated bureaucracy that operates the system.
Everybody else LOSES.
Astonishingly enough, the did this without providing free Wi-Fi!
I see light rail as a possible rail-based solution to a transportation problem -- if applicable. Sometimes it just isn't the right solution. Detroit is a good example.
“Light rail” sounds awfully Eurocentric......
It's a better way to travel than being crammed onto a private Mexican bus with goats and chickens.
Cleveland's got light rail. They've had it since the Van Sweringan built parts of the Cleveland Rapid Transit System. Over a time span from 1920 to 1930, they built (without government money, I might add) what is now part of the "green line", stretching from Shaker Square to Public Square and later, the Terminal Tower in downtown Cleveland.
Despite this extensive development, the only things "popping up" around Cleveland these days are "for sale" signs and "foreclosure" signs.
Light rail made great sense when few people had an automobile. They still make sense in a few large, very densely populated areas like New York and Chicago. But they make no sense at all for the vast majority of people in this country, particularly when the cost of the system prohibits it from being built in an even remotely convenient manner for most peoples' travelling needs.
You’re probably right. :)
Light rail or a Mexican bus? Those are the only 2 choices you can come up with? LOL!
Because imposing socialist train wet dreams on the populace is Willie's religion ?
You'd think so.
What about “The People Mover?” Didn’t “The People Mover” aid in the redistribution of wealth?
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