Dennis Plante wrote: The whole premise for the statements made by the taxpayers league are absurd in nature. The statements are backed-up by nothing other than a few days worth of informal observations that everything appeared to be "running smoothly". What exactly led to these conclusions? The fact that a bunch of people weren't trudging down the side of highways and interstates with briefcases in-hand?
I would be willing to at least consider their assertions if someone could name just ONE other city in the U.S. roughly the size of Minneapolis that operated w/o a transit system. You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time. Mark Anderson replies: The comment made by David Strom was not a conclusion but merely a comment. He noted that traffic didn't seem to be affected at all by the bus strike, which contradicts many of the comments made by mass transit advocates. I agree that his comment was premature. It also takes into account only the affects on traffic of mass transit, not the suffering that occurs by those that normally take the bus. Nevertheless it is a valid issue to talk about. One constantly hears that building more highways will not cure congestion, and that the only way to do this is to build more mass transit. So far it looks like mass transit has essentially zero effect on congestion. We'll see if that holds up over the next few weeks (if the strike lasts a while, which looks likely to me). Perhaps the major argument of mass transit advocates will go out the window. Mark Anderson Bancroft REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
