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New Twin Cities light rail line beats ridership projections
Calgary’s C-Train runs on wind energy…
Yet another successful light rail transit project? Next they’re going to ask me to believe the earth is round!!
They NEED to fix the problems with the line stopping at every single traffic light. Snelling, Dale, Rice I can understand but the one time I rode this line we also stopped at Hamline, Lexington, Western - much less major streets. This has bumped trip time up from 48 minutes to about an hour. Also, the stations are AFTER the lights - so first you stop at the light and then at the station. It’s really annoying.
mr. poore: the only way to get from downtown to downtown in 20 min. at rush hour is by heliocopter,come on into the real world,it,s actually pretty nice
Mr Butlin – My tongue was fully implanted in my cheek as I regurgitated the usual excuses for spending 1B on something that requires $ 30 in subsidies for each rider who can actually ride a line that goes from downtown to downtown in about an hour.
That’s opposed to between 20 to 45 min on a freeway that we all pay for in gas taxes that have been put into so many other uses other than highways.
Mr Boyer – When you go in the other direction you stop before the stop light. Did you want two stations at every light increasing the cost for your subsidized ride to 40 or 50 dollars.
I like rail - I ride the Empire Builder to Montana, more than 800 miles (Mr Butlin, whats the longest trip in Great Britain?) I know that Amtrak is also subsidized but just as in the freight railroads the cost in Miles per (freight), passenger hauled is much lower. If we were to build that line from scratch it also would not make sense.
There are many places in Great Britain where rail makes sense especially in cities like London. I only object when a cost benefit analysis of rail for the vast majority of people in an area doesn’t make sense.
Mr Keiser - The more power used the more coal has to be burned so it is not a zero sum increase to add Light rail into the power usage mix. Some of the Greenies who advocate for light rail seem to think it makes no impact on the environment, so I pointed out this fallacy.
Mr Summers ___ I have driven that highway many times off peak it is 20 min. and peak it averages 45 min. BOTH OF WHICH I CITED. Notice it says John Poore from Minnesota
Of course the Earth must be round so that we can interconnect all these new LIGHT RAIL lines into a highly efficient means of transportation. Then we can eliminate all the aircraft spewing all that carbon into the atmosphere. Oh, sorry, I forgot that LIGHT RAIL uses electricity generated mostly by coal fired power plants. Or even worse those “Nukular” plants. OH WELL, the best laid plans…
The power plants are making the power anyway, and I am sure LIGHT RAIL as you capitalize it would not make that much of a difference, Mr. Poole. If you could please look up how much pollution is spewed by one jet plane in flight, you would be awed as I was.
More passenger miles per BTU of energy expended is a good thing.
And how many people said no one would ride this line? Having ridden the #16 bus between DT Mpls and DT St. Paul many times, I bet the LRT will be very, very successful!
Mr Poore - what exactly are you trying to say? Do you like Light Rail (I won’t shout)? Do you think that light rail, as a user of electricity must be bad? Are you upset that a thing running on rails has lots of passengers?
If you don’t like Light Rail why not simply say “I don’t like it becasue of x and y and z”. If you are upset that a thing running on rails has lots of passengers may I humbly suggest that a railroad board is a strange place to express that view.
Look forward to finding how much time it really does take when you’re stuck in traffic…I’ll be on the new light rail in the meantime! And FYI, wind turbine-generated electricity really does power Calgary’s C-Train system…amazingly it is possible to generate electricity from other sources besides coal…one of those “earth-is-round” things
liv ed in st. paul for 60 years,so please don’t tell me whats not true.rush hour is at least 40 min! your obviously just anti fossil fuel for producing electricity,perhaps you need a new horse
liv ed in st. paul for 60 years,so please don’t tell me whats not true.rush hour is at least 40 min! your obviously just anti fossil fuel for producing electricity,perhaps you need a new horse
liv ed in st. paul for 60 years,so please don’t tell me whats not true.rush hour is at least 40 min!
Mr Poore you are right on spot. It is only a 20 minute drive off peek and maybe less from downtown Minneapolis to downtown St Paul. But the problem is that some people can’t afford a car so the light rail is an option. And yes it does consume a lot of electricity for all you greenies out there. lol Where is that wind power when you need it? lol
Mr Poore - there are of course good reasons for pointing out what you have pointed out; it certainly need to be noted that pollution occurs in any form of mechanical travel. That said one light rail car carrying say 100 people uses less energy than 100 people driving their cars on the same journey. Indeed, if, of those 100 people, 50 had previously gone by car then you have 50 fewer cars on the raod and so you can go just that little bit quicker as you get in your car.
Actually I know it doen’t quite work like that as a further 50 people will now drive - these being people who never chose to travel in the first place becasue of the congestion. So the end result is better mobility, which tends to be a societal or public good.
The longest train journey in the UK is about 600 miles - I have done it - takes about 8 hours. However length of train journey seems a curious argument: the longest one in the world is in Russia, and was before the fall of communism, in the Soviet Union. Does that make Russia a good country - obviously a large one, but is large good?
John Poore, you are a troll; your posts make NO sense at all.
Having just been to PA’s Horseshoe Curve and noticed all the wind farms on the ridges surrounding Altoona (which I assume light up a good part of Blair and Cambria Counties), I must ask…
Are there any transit systems powered by solar energy?