* Thomas Searles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041204 16:20]: > So, Pat, you rail against transportation, but what are our alternatives? As > you can guess, I am a strong supporter of increasing the capacity of Highways > 5 and 494. Strangling transportation in the Metro area is short sighted and > counter productive. I will continue to commute and I would just as soon spend > less time in the car. Being stuck in traffic does not benefit either me or > the environment.
Personally, we need to support legislative activities that support both Transit, Roads, and Bridges in the upcoming legislative session. Business leaders such as the Itasca Project and the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce also support such goals. Itasca Group has paid for a poll that shows that Minnesotans statewide support Transit, Roads, and Bridges. Today's opening of the complete Hiawatha Line (and last summer's start) have helped to show that the ridership claims are not bogus -- people can and do ride transit. Transit needs to be put in where it is effective -- and the mode chosen the most effecient over the long term. Mixed projects of Roads and Transit could be proposed where the overall cost per user ends up being less than if the projects were seperate -- and the benefits to road drivers and transit users weighed in the same forum, rather than in respective vacuums. Minnesota Moves plan: http://www.mnchamber.com/priorities/minnesota_moves.cfm Itasca Project Poll: http://www.tlcminnesota.org/ItascaPoll.htm -- Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> KC0OBS http://www.ringworld.org/ -- http://www.railworks.org/ -- http://publictransportation.org/ -- Stop "playing political splat ball," support the Northstar Train! _______________________________________________ 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.
