[jimt]

The worst part of deals like this isn’t the initial capital it needs. It’s that you are adding tens-hundreds of millions in government spending to subsidize it every year from now on forever.

That's been the history of EVERY public mass transit system.

Here in Houston, our boondoggle Metro wastes enough that we could buy every user a brand new Mercedes every three years.

Our downtown Metro toy train, besides its 80 plus wrecks, has INCREASED downtown congestion, not improved it.

So what do our politicians want ? To piss away more of Metro's 1% sales tax money expanding the toy train system, in order to make Houston "a world class city".

Houston's become America's 3rd largest city in SPITE of this crap, not because of it.

"Just say no" to this further wasteful boondoggle.

[DManA]

Spending begets spending. That is an indisputable fact about the nature of government.