I had a thought about Mr. Roach's comments:
> ***********
> 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.
> ***************
While there are definite increases in the average time it may take for a
car to drive along a street with a commuter rail crossing, I imagine most
motorists will learn to cross the tracks in an opportunistic way: they will
drive along streets parallel to the tracks until they see a crossing that is
clear, turn to cross the tracks, then be on their way unfettered. If this
occurs on a large scale, then the real problem we are talking about by
increasing the use of those tracks is that the streets parallel to the tracks
are going to get a little busier. Not a problem on East Washington, but I am
concerned about Willy St being used for this purpose.
Yes, this is the same Mike Roach that runs "Kwik Cab LLC" that was
deinied a license because he wasn't going to operate enough cabs...
I watched the proceedings on channel 12 that night, and the "no" votes
came from the people I expected [ Borchardt (Objected to a "WhereAs"
specifically making commuter rail a priority), Compton (seemed to have issues
with the dollars per passenger cost of rail), Thomas (Thought there might be
better uses for the money) ], though I was somewhat suprised that Rosas
abstained.
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