Re: on our soon to be rail tranisit
Aw Jesus, Edith!
Double-deck, heck TRIPLE-deck the highways if you want. It still does not address the issue of parking space shortage in high density areas, as well as the burden each of the surrounding residential neighborhoods have with commuters parking on their streets all day long. Adding more road ways to encourage more people to drive cars will only make the parking problem worse. Not so with rail.
Why rail? Because if there's a major accident/fatality on the freeway during morning/afternoon rush hour, you know what happens. Total gridlock for everybody, whether in a car or on a bus. Not so with rail.
So many people here are convinced that rail will be underutilized. And a lot of folks have swallowed 20+ years of Cliff Slater's anti-rail propaganda in Advertiser opinion pieces and City Council testimonies as gospel. By all means, drink his Kool-Aid if you want to gag on increasingly slower traffic and longer drive times. But I am convinced that more working people and students can be convinced to leave their cars at home if there are modes of mass transportation that is reliable and gets to destinations on time like clockwork. That is why many people are weary of using the bus. Traffic accidents and road closures can play absolute havoc with the bus timetable. Not so with rail.
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Originally posted by Karen
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Double-deck, heck TRIPLE-deck the highways if you want. It still does not address the issue of parking space shortage in high density areas, as well as the burden each of the surrounding residential neighborhoods have with commuters parking on their streets all day long. Adding more road ways to encourage more people to drive cars will only make the parking problem worse. Not so with rail.
Why rail? Because if there's a major accident/fatality on the freeway during morning/afternoon rush hour, you know what happens. Total gridlock for everybody, whether in a car or on a bus. Not so with rail.
So many people here are convinced that rail will be underutilized. And a lot of folks have swallowed 20+ years of Cliff Slater's anti-rail propaganda in Advertiser opinion pieces and City Council testimonies as gospel. By all means, drink his Kool-Aid if you want to gag on increasingly slower traffic and longer drive times. But I am convinced that more working people and students can be convinced to leave their cars at home if there are modes of mass transportation that is reliable and gets to destinations on time like clockwork. That is why many people are weary of using the bus. Traffic accidents and road closures can play absolute havoc with the bus timetable. Not so with rail.
Get da picture?
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