Part of the answer lies in why people ride transit. There are two kinds of
people who ride transit: people who have no other transit option (mainly the
poor, disabled, and elderly) and those who are going to work. In the Twin
Cities, 32% of riders have no other transit option and 81% of people are
going to work. Also, 75% of persons riding transit are doing so during the
rush hour.
For the people going to work (the majority of riders), they usually are not
making multiple stops. They are going from work to home or home to work.
If they need to make multiple stops, they usually drive (70% of folksing
taking transit have access to a car) or they use pool cars provided by their
employer.
Carol Becker
Longfellow
- Original Message -
From: Russell Wayne Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Multiple recipients of list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 7:09 AM
Subject: Electric Car Shuttle System
I read the article RT forwarded about how in California people are taking
the rail into the city to a point and then getting a car they've parked
there to drive in the rest of the way. I've always wondered how an
LRTsystem works where many people need to go to meetings at different
sites.
Our bus system really doesn't serve that very well and neither will LRT.
I
know that PRT would serve it, but since we haven't gone down that venue
quite let, I've kind of put that aside in my thinking.
Perhaps we need a system of cars that are available for people to move
across town once they are at work: kind of a park and ride in reverse.
You
could take a bus or lrt to your work place and then once you get to work,
let's assume downtown for now, you would have a place with rental electric
cars that you could drive and shuttle yourself around to meetings if need
be. We could use a card coded system to log miles and who uses the cars.
It might get complicated, but could be worthwhile. Does anybody know of
such a system in the world? Or does anybody have any thoughts on this
kind
of system working with LRT and a better bus system?
Russ Peterson
Ward 9
Standish
R U S S E L L P E T E R S O N D E S I G N
"You can only fly if you stretch your wings."
Russell W. Peterson, RA, CID
Founder
3857 23rd Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55407
612-724-2331
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Sumner (home)
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2000 12:01 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Mr. Wellstone needs an k-12 education
I've support publicly the referendum, and wrote an article that was
published in the local newspaper stating such.
The referendum brings that school budget under more local control, but the
next step in this is to remove the same amount from the state funding.
Regarding the numbers...
Two things need to happen here :
1. Separate the ELL and Special Ed student numbers from overall test score
numbers. This would be a more fair representation of comparison numbers.
2. The school administration needs to be serious about addressing the
real
issues that the standards report points out, instead of looking for
excuses.
There are real problems in the Minneapolis school system, and they won't
get
solved with excuses. Some of the issues aren't seen as much in other
school
districts. The cities generally face these issues more than the subs.
The
school system needs to address itself to how to deal with these issues
instead of looking for excuses.
Steve Sumner
Ward 1
