Reverend: ...and don't get me started on the idiocy of those light rail systems that all liberals love.
Just big huge money pits, that cost BILLIONS and BILLIONS, and nobody uses them. Multi billion dollar trains running up and down between nowhere and (fill in the liberal large town here), with three guys on it. And two of those guys didn't pay the fare.
Show me a light rail system that even comes close to paying for itself, and I'll eat my hat.
Well Fredd, Calgary and Edmonton have two of the most successful light rail systems on the planet. Not in the USA, true but in Cities of urban form very similar to US cities. Many US cities are trying at the moment to offer travellers a choice rather than always using their cars, and even quite conservative voters are surprisingly happy to vote tax dollars to it. After all, you could hardly call Dallas and Houston bastions of liberalism could you?
Or Salt Lake City, Charlotte, Raleigh or even Minneapolis St. Paul. Most of these systems are surprisingly successful (certainly assessed in the same way highway projects are) and much more so than the local bus networks and more importantly their local voters have chosen these. So its not all comsymplibs who like light rail systems you know. Public transportation has some very decent conservatives and moderates behind its improvement. Why? Because not everyone appreciates spending hours every day stuck on some damn superhighway getting to and from work. Having used the 401 in Toronto, all 18 lanes of it, and been stuck on it for hours and hours, you can give me light rail anyday of the week
And don't forget that with the exception of toll roads, NO highway system ever 'pays for itself'. Hell the're free to use mostly. How Socialist is that?
They stop at the Nike Store to provide Air Jordans to their constituents free of charge.
ReplyDeleteWere any work boots looted? I don't think so.
ReplyDeleteNo, but there's not a basketball or a watermelon left downtown.
ReplyDeleteI understand it's all been burned down
ReplyDeleteWell done, team.
Naturally, there will be more protests until our tax dollars re-build the projects.
ReplyDeleteAll hail the new Utopia. Until it runs out of ca$h.
ReplyDeleteYes, Baltimore and other Democrat-controlled towns are pure heaven on earth: Detroit, Cleveland, Atlanta, Newark, the list goes on and on.
ReplyDeleteToilets, every one of them.
There's not a whole lot left of Detroit... As for Newark -- what a disaster.
ReplyDeleteReverend: ...and don't get me started on the idiocy of those light rail systems that all liberals love.
ReplyDeleteJust big huge money pits, that cost BILLIONS and BILLIONS, and nobody uses them. Multi billion dollar trains running up and down between nowhere and (fill in the liberal large town here), with three guys on it. And two of those guys didn't pay the fare.
Show me a light rail system that even comes close to paying for itself, and I'll eat my hat.
Well Fredd, Calgary and Edmonton have two of the most successful light rail systems on the planet. Not in the USA, true but in Cities of urban form very similar to US cities. Many US cities are trying at the moment to offer travellers a choice rather than always using their cars, and even quite conservative voters are surprisingly happy to vote tax dollars to it. After all, you could hardly call Dallas and Houston bastions of liberalism could you?
ReplyDeleteOr Salt Lake City, Charlotte, Raleigh or even Minneapolis St. Paul. Most of these systems are surprisingly successful (certainly assessed in the same way highway projects are) and much more so than the local bus networks and more importantly their local voters have chosen these. So its not all comsymplibs who like light rail systems you know. Public transportation has some very decent conservatives and moderates behind its improvement. Why? Because not everyone appreciates spending hours every day stuck on some damn superhighway getting to and from work. Having used the 401 in Toronto, all 18 lanes of it, and been stuck on it for hours and hours, you can give me light rail anyday of the week
ReplyDeleteOr Phoenix etc. etc. There's nothing wrong with liking decent public transportation.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't forget that with the exception of toll roads, NO highway system ever 'pays for itself'. Hell the're free to use mostly. How Socialist is that?
ReplyDeleteI like trains and I hate congested highways (I don't like that Toronto Hwy either, Lukeya).
ReplyDeleteBut let's not forget LL's traffic busting solution -- a Ducati Diavel.
NICE bike.
True - I'm a Norton Commando man myself Padre. Photo to follow.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to the pic, Lukeya.
ReplyDeleteThe Ducati is fine, but in Texas with all of that summer lightning, I'm afraid that I'd feel like a moving lightning rod as I charge down I-35.
ReplyDeleteNow, it's said that the Ducati Diavel is faster than chain blue lightning. However it may be a slight exaggeration.