While I cheer this point the Strib is making about choices, I have been very unhappy with the slant they have on the issue of transit.
I accept that we need to push transit as an option for commuters. This will really help get suburban riders to support the issue. My problem with the Strib is their frame of reference is someone who has a car as an option. The coverage of the October 1995 bus strike focused almost exclusively on commuters who would have to drive in rush hour and their inconvience. Belatedly I think they did an article on the residents where buses are the first and only choice for getting some place. So my point is that when we think of transit we have to also remember for some people this is there first choice on travel. Josh Kroll Minneapolis > Message: 1 > Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Terrell Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:00:38 -0600 > Subject: [TCMetro] Stirb transit editorials > > Two editorials in today's StarTribune on transit. > > The first by the Strib editors includes this: > > " The report's second solution, market choices, is a slam-dunk. > Consumers expect options in everything from breakfast cereal to movies. > Yet for commuting, most have no attractive choice but to drive. It's an > embarrassment that Minnesota funds transit at only half the level of > comparable places." > > http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/3756229.html > > > The second http://www.startribune.com/stories/562/3753286.html > concludes: "More choices and fair pricing would get better results than > the paranoia and propaganda that now poison transportation politics. So, > if the problem is that our current development pattern has reached its > limit, then the challenge would seem to be one of rebalancing policy > back toward a market of more choices and fair prices. After a generation > of rhetoric-rich but research-poor debate, now we have facts to face." _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Metropolitan Issues Forum http://www.e-democracy.org/tcmetro Rules: Sign posts with real name. You may not post more than twice a day.
