How about gondolas from the airport to downtown and from downtown to St.
Paul. Good now, that I've got your attention ;-)
The system that Jack cited, taxicabs, relies on a driver and fossil fuels in
order to work. I don't think those things are needed to necessarily
envision a different system. As far as the "rider ship definitions," I
don't think we have our targets defined very well, otherwise we'd have
figured this out a long time ago and wouldn't have such an unfriendly system
in place.
I'd still like to see smaller buses that were electric instead of diesel
powered, some smaller shuttles running more frequently and some sensitivity
to cross town and neighborhood destinations. And some amenities as I'd
mentioned before like coffee, books, or wireless internet access on the bus.
And I still like that lotto idea, everybody puts their ticket into a lottery
and at the end of the year one is pulled worth a million dollars - I bet
you'd see rider ship go up and you'd spend less on building roads. I bet
that kind of incentive might even blow the rider ship definitions out of the
water.
I guess I just wanted to see if anybody else had some "out of the box" ideas
regarding our bus and transit possibilities. That's what I'll be looking
for in my candidates for 2001!
Hope you are all well in the new year.
Russ Peterson
Ward 9
Standish
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