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Hahahaha! Hallelujah, there is hope after all! A wasteful boondoggle bites the dust. Real, sensible taxpayers everywhere are thanking you, Mr. O’Toole, for helping to shelve plans for this embarrassing boondoggle!
Now, if only Seattle and Portland would shelve their useless toy train plans and tear up the tracks, too.
Aw, come on Randal, you know it was because some bus vender offered bigger campaign donations than the rail mafia.
Thanks
JK
Well, they’ll end up paying more for BRT, than LRT.
On December 15th, 2011, the highwayman said: “Well, they’ll end up paying more for BRT, than LRT.”
OK, I’ll bite.
On what basis do you make this statement? Do you have cost comparisons for Detroit’s LRT and BRT proposals? Given the bus alternatives are supposed to extend out to neighboring communities, the bus option sounds more cost-effective to me. But that’s just intuitive thinking, coupled with the common knowledge that Detroit proper is a depopulated wasteland. A regional bus system would have more utility than a Detroit-only LRT system.
metrosucks said:
Hahahaha! Hallelujah, there is hope after all! A wasteful boondoggle bites the dust. Real, sensible taxpayers everywhere are thanking you, Mr. O’Toole, for helping to shelve plans for this embarrassing boondoggle!
Now, if only Seattle and Portland would shelve their useless toy train plans and tear up the tracks, too.
THWM: You only say that, because you’re a sociopath. You don’t give a shit about taxpayers and other people in America.
Besides, O’Toole’s “job” is to defend the profit margins of big oil & auto makers. He doesn’t give a shit about taxpayers and other people in America either.
Now, see, this doesn’t help the discussion at all. Your childish diatribes and name-calling against metrosucks and the Antiplanner do nothing to advance your case. If you can’t back up your allegations with facts or numbers, please crawl back under your rock.
Thank you.
THWM: You only say that, because you’re a sociopath. You don’t give a shit about taxpayers and other people in America.
Though coming from him, it’s almost a compliment.
Aw, come on Randal, you know it was because some bus vender offered bigger campaign donations than the rail mafia.
JK, not sure if you were serious or not. Elaborate?
Thanks.
Plenty of information out there to challenge the viability of Detroit and other similar plans. The key is to understand current/potential ridership and associated costs of building a line, which should be seen as a solution to reduce congestion on existing transit modes as it may not create a great deal of new riders. If severe congestion doesn’t exist and the costs of building the rail is high…it’s pretty hard to justify.
Good study on existing tram/bus networks.
http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/24872/1/MPRA_paper_24872.pdf
Here’s an interesting analysis of the Detroit situation:
http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2011/12/18/in-a-failure-of-municipal-ambition-plans-for-detroit-light-rail-shut-down-as-focus-shifts-to-brt/
Key point: “No rail project, no matter how nice, can singlehandedly reverse the systematic decline of a once-huge city. Development will come to downtown Detroit when there is a demand for housing units and employment there, not when there are tracks along Woodward Avenue.”
It’s hard to believe the Detroit light rail project was anything other than a make-work project. Detroit’s existing transit system doesn’t appear to be bursting at the seams.