tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post6196105619348125569..comments2024-03-25T13:42:25.771-05:00Comments on Advance Indianaâ„¢: Kenley Owns Nuvo Reporter On Debate Over Mass TransitGary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-7742375607768267932013-08-15T19:21:36.654-05:002013-08-15T19:21:36.654-05:00Myth transit proponents should prefer pedestrian a...Myth transit proponents should prefer pedestrian alternatives that encourage lower costs of government (COG, let's say), taxes & fees, so as to encourage business to locate in the city; vs. blight rail distance of the suburbs.Pete Boggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12948800585492289789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-58554629659183529482013-08-15T15:06:17.297-05:002013-08-15T15:06:17.297-05:00Until Indy has a mass transit system sufficient to...<b>Until Indy has a mass transit system sufficient to ferry workers from their homes to their jobs, the city will continue its decline.</b><br /><br />This is hilarious. The entire country is in decline, and it isn't ever going to get better. The fact is, the US of A is kaput. Local, state, and federal governments have reviled that we are mostly a nation of liars and individual narcissists. This is why more and more countries will thumb their nose at us in the future.<br /><br />On the federal level we printed mounds of debt that can't be paid off. At the state and local level, we write all sorts of bonds and make payment promises that only an idiot can ever believe will be paid off. In order to truly fund things like billion dollar sport stadiums, million dollar facility giveaways, and billion dollar mass transit systems, taxes would have to be astronomical.<br /><br />Of course massive taxation won't happen, but that is the one thing that eventually wakens the masses, just like the property tax issue. A fancy train won't save Indy, it won't save Chicago, or any other city. Between the massive mounds of outstanding IOU payments (pension, social security, etc.), unaffordable municipal bond amounts, and more and more counties of the world in chaos, why do you think a silly train will make the future any brighter?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-63917692213042474002013-08-15T13:42:10.234-05:002013-08-15T13:42:10.234-05:00It is sad that the issue of Mass Transit seems to ...It is sad that the issue of Mass Transit seems to have become a binary choice. I do believe our Mass transit system needs to be improved. Mass Transit should be a piece of the transportation puzzle. <br /><br />That said I do not believe Light Rail will solve the transportation issue. An incremental expansion more routes and and improved service on the routes could be plan. <br /><br />Public Transportation and the service it provides should not be a trip to the pig trough of Crony-Capitalism. Floggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10383015097067413086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-76137609045209525432013-08-15T12:51:53.340-05:002013-08-15T12:51:53.340-05:00Until Indy has a mass transit system sufficient to...Until Indy has a mass transit system sufficient to ferry workers from their homes to their jobs, the city will continue its decline.<br />Ellenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09586896660324463074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1166098255863766322013-08-15T07:15:12.568-05:002013-08-15T07:15:12.568-05:00In all parts of he country, there are some truly g...In all parts of he country, there are some truly goofy people behind public transit. It's a magnet issue for outcasts.<br /><br />If you want to see some further bad ideas on public transit, check out the Urban Indy blog, where those "delicate souls" are proposing all sorts of ways to destroy streets for car travel to force people to use means of transportation they have long ago rejected.<br /><br />Whenever a good post is authored that debunks their bad ideas, they delete it. <br /><br />What sort of broken homes and abusive childhoods were these meddling people raised in that steers their minds toward such abusive, controlling, arrogant and unwanted ideas?<br /><br />Why does today's culture indulge such deviancy and treat such aberrant people as full equals? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-37723172414278712372013-08-15T07:07:41.981-05:002013-08-15T07:07:41.981-05:00She also kept pushing the global warming line, try...She also kept pushing the global warming line, trying to tie it to the need for mass transit. Kenley refused to buy the reporters premise of dangerous man-made global warming that was threatening the planet. But she kept asking the questions.Paul K. Ogdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16137003328850866711noreply@blogger.com