Parts of every big urban city have parts and sections that look like Detroit. Detroit is just on the bleeding edge of societal devolution!
Posted on 07/25/2014 10:28:15 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
You win post of the day. ;o)
IMAGINE!
Next time you drive past a light rail train, imagine 3 things;
1. Each light rail passenger in a full size car instead of the train car.
2. Driving on paved over light rail track line.
3. All the empty space between those cars being used by cars on your road.
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Think of how much faster your own travel would be with an emptier road!
I would normally too. But I would avoid them just like I avoid the private “short buses” that “compete” with New Jersey Transit (and that includes my avoidance of NJT on top of that). And DBC’s look conjures a certain urban “ethos” that is utterly at odds with what I believe in.
In addition, DBC uses some Obama-esque slogan words, such as “Change”. Highly visible on their website.
Whatever.
LOL! I wonder if the Blight Rail will go to Blight-more.
Nope. CT’s $60 million dollar a mile busway is.
Parts of every big urban city have parts and sections that look like Detroit. Detroit is just on the bleeding edge of societal devolution!
I can see exactly one use for “light rail”: connecting an outlying airport with a city center and population centers or secondary-business cores on the far side of the city. The El’s blue line in Chicago, the Seattle light rail system (one line just as I described), SEPTA’s train to Philadelphia International,. . . all get a great deal of ridership just as airport links, and I suspect, between that and their ridership as public transit for locals would all be profitable as stand-alone rail lines (unlike most public transit).
Chicago has a good system. It takes you to where you want to go (including both airports and most stadiums). It doesn’t drop you off in the middle of nowhere.
Light rail will be obsolete with the first self driving vehicle. Why started this now?
Or this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4eEVhoohtI
If they’re using the slogans of the left and adopt the urban decay look of left-wing rule, it’s a bit beyond “whatever”. Just my observation.
Well, no, but there are plenty of other reasons to oppose government boondoggles.
“Thanks for reading.”
No. Thank you for writing that.
Like I said, whatever.
“Nevermore!”
Houston owns the trademark on the term Boondoggle associated with a light rail transportation system.
the 34-mile Sounder north line, which links Seattle to Everett, is costing much more and being used far less than anybody expected. It was originally proposed as a six-train commuter service, on the existing Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway tracks, with six stops. But as costs shot up to $368 million from a projected $132 million, the agency cut back to four trains and four stations. About 1,100 riders use the line every weekday, far below the original forecast of 2,400–3,200 riders, for an average cost of $330,000 per rider.
And than this.........
By contrast, the Sounder south route, from Seattle to Tacoma, cost $55,000 per average weekday rider$135,000 per rider for its new commuter line.
To be sure, unforeseen circumstances, including the recent recession, have contributed to reduced ridership and lower revenues, but poor negotiations are also part of the problem. Sound Transit originally estimated it would have to pay $65 million to use BNSF’s right-of-way for the Seattle-Everett route. The agency ended up paying $258 million for those rights. /q>
Sound Transit states that they have no thoughts of shutting down the Money Pit that is the North line. That the people there want it. And they have started a marketing campaign to increase ridership.
Idiots
Ed
I thought that was the Train of Death!
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