http://www.nashuarpc.org/transportation/travelalts_commrail.htm
But rail planners have to do a study that looks at road alternitves![%-)]
It would seem that in order for FTA money to be approved there has to be a expensive alternitive analises done such as adding highway lanes or adding buses or do nothing…
But If a Highway or Freeway were to be built with FHA money the freeway planners are not required that I know of to do a study to look at light rail or commuter rail alternitives??
you got it, baby. Money talks, my friend, and the highway and automotive lobbies have the dear old USA sewed up good and tight, from the town first selectman or mayor all the way up to the prexy, with governors, state houses, and congress all tied in.
And, good buddy, if you don’t think there’s a little corruption involved in the whole thing, your either living in a cave or you just haven’t looked.
From the looks of your subject, you are getting ready to go down that ole highway called “Get Booted Off”.
Analysis, when spelled right, will have no problem getting past the censors.
You have an MO of starting off right and then slowly swerving into trash talk. Time for a new MO.
The rail lobby has to start playing dirty…
We have to start burying people in football stadiams to get our point across like they did that Hoffa guy…
Right on Mookie!!!
I susect that his misspelling was most likely Freudian[8D]
Bergie will be playing verbal football with him, shortly,
most likely… [2c]
I’m rooting for Bergie in this match-up[tup]
So are you saying that you feel that LRT proposals are being short-changed in the consideration of transportation options by some kind of institutional/political bias in favor of roads?
That’s certainly not happening in my world.
This is not true in the case of Connecticut. Last year highway advocates wanted to expand I-95, the Connecticut Turnpike, which parallels the Amtrak/Metro North corridor line to New York. They were so desperate that they proposed making an additional travel lane north and southbound by eliminating the breakdown lanes, Sanity prevailed and, instead, the state will expand the railroad by adding a forth track between Bridgeport and New Haven and ordering additional MU cars to increase train capacity. If you"ve ever driven I-95 south from New Haven you know that more expansion would be an environmental disaster in the cities and towns it passes through. Also, the state would like to add additional trains to the state operated Shoreline East commuter operation between New Haven east to New London. The big obstacle here is marine interests that object to more trains on the corridor because the additional drawbridge openings may delay pleasure boaters.
I believe you are a little late to the game. Roads are so pervasive in our society that there is not one location anywhere you can’t get to that is populated. How do you duplicate a light rail system that can reach any community or any building within any community and can run at the operators whim? Roads have been victorious for a reason other than rail bias.
Here in Cleveland I-480 was extened to Solon on a expideted schedule in 1993 rather then rebuild the Erie Commuter Train that served the same route. (Cleveland-Randall Park-Solon-Youngstown)