The bus plan is a double edged sword. On the one hand, the service is needed. On the other hand, if the bus plan passes, the politicians are likely to pat...
Will the main reason Sims gives for this tax is that employment will grow over the next ten by 25% - no known economist believes that and they have forecast a...
Will the main reason Sims gives for this tax is that employment will grow over the next ten by 25% - no known economist believes that and they have forecast a...
... - it wouldn't take as ... of buying - you can ... rents eventually gets ... renter's cost keeps going ... You still "rent" the track & train cars. It's not...
Seems like we were just thinking about ferries and here they are... -Gary- http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003334245_ferry01m.html ======== ...
If you buy track you own it - yes there are maintenance costs and yes the trains only last a little over twice as long as busses - and busses are running at a...
If you buy track you own it - yes there are maintenance costs and yes the trains only last a little over twice as long as busses - and busses are running at a...
If you buy track you own it - yes there are maintenance costs and yes the trains only last a little over twice as long as busses - and busses are running at a...
Gary, I'll tell ya what, what's so wonderful about having you on this "Friends of the Monorail" list is that you repeatedly challenge the fundamental...
Mitch, is it too much to ask drop the personal attacks/aspersions Last year it was me you took to bad mouthing, now apparently Gary, or... [pick a name]. ...
Oh, and by the way, just to be super-cautious about not being construed to be engaging in personal attacks, let me issue the following disclaimer... When I...
Chad, you seem to be mistaking on-topic discource for personal attacks again. Gary repeatedly makes the kind of anti-fixed-rail-transit arguments that you...
... construed to ... disclaimer... ... transit ... I order to not bother to fan this flame war too much, I'll just say one or two things that I hope will clear...
Frankly, I have no problem with people moving to places like Bellevue, Kirkland, Everett, Edmonds, Tacoma. The question is, are they moving to places that are...
... yes the trains only last a ... 80% sudsidy level most ... billion of expenditure what ... rail there will be the rail ... for basically ever. But as we've...
... convenient ... car, they ... Well Bellevue the city, is focusing on building in city living space. The condos are growing. It's been a long time coming. If...
... Gary the money is also raised in Seattle and in my option we in the city will not get our money's worth so it is reasonable using your logic for...
... city will not get our ... to vote no. Yep. I would agree with that assessment. But as I've stated, as a resident of the county, it's a good deal, so I'll...
... Your suburban county council members - the same ones that can change the formula at any time - a main reason Seattle should become a county like SF and...
Yet, Mitch, you ignore the fact that the actual ballot proposition we were talking about isn't about giving suburbanites bus service so they can live there and...
Will, just to be litigiously clear, I was responding specifically to Gary's classic anti-rail arguments. If you actually took the time to read my posts, you...
It may be an opinion piece, but heck, it's about a Monorail even if it's not a Seattle Monorail. And afterall this is a "Friends of Monorail" group. -Gary- ...
the funny thing about this is that the ridership issues in Las Vegas have nothing to do with the mode and everything to do with management. the way they've...
Is it true that they're trying to recover the capital costs at the farebox? If that's the case, then that would strike me as the fundamental problem. ... ...
Because, as you well know, no one can predict: a. state of economy (and growth of sales tax receipts); b. growth of population (and thus sales taxes); c. cost...
... Yes, Will it is always a range - and if a tax is increased the the bell curve is shifted up with the y axis being the total tax revenue - however in the...
The Metro transit snap shot on WSDOT's site shows that in 2006 we will subsidize bus transit approxiamately $450M per year - the main source of revenue a .8%...
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