I am happy to report that the City Council last night voted 14-3 to approve the Transport 2020 plan. Of course, the hard part is going to be finding money to proceed to the next steps....
We have all had the (dis?)pleasure of reading Mike Roach's arguments against rail. No need to rehash all that, except.... There has been much made about the delays to (car) traffic that might happen as trains cross major ateries. As I pointed out to the City Council last night, there are going to be delays to traffic whether you put trains in or not. My guess the delays are going to be much LESS if people are on the train than each in a car! This quote appeared in Mike Ivey's column in the Cap Times yesterday. *********** With trains expected to roll every 30 minutes during peak times, Roach said the traffic jams created at the railroad crossings will fray the nerves of drivers and quickly turn public sentiment against all forms of mass transit. "Imagine how upset people are going to get sitting in their cars, wasting gas, waiting for a half-empty train to cross the road," he said. *************** To which I'd like to scream: AS OPPOSED TO HOW UPSET PEOPLE ARE BEING DELAYED AND WASTING GAS ALONE IN THEIR LINCOLN NAVIGATOR WHEN STUCK BEHIND A FORD EXPEDITION WITH ONE PERSON INSIDE? "Never doubt that a small group of dedicated individuals working together can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
