Somebody else gets it
You have to plow through the feel-good fluffy part of this post to get to it, but there it is when you scroll down:
"We're painting ourselves into a bizarre corner where we're not able to maintain our streets, we're not able to maintain the buses and the trains that we have out there, and we're focused on cutting ribbons in front of new rail projects," Taylor says.He's skeptical that streetcars are the urban transit solution they're touted to be. "If the investment is tied in effectively to the rest of the transit system, it can be a very effective investment," he says. "If it's not — and there are cases where it has not been — then it's not."
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Comments (10)
Too much of a good idea, is in the end, almost always a bad idea.
Posted by Gibby | February 12, 2011 5:27 PM
Too much of a good idea, is in the end, almost always a bad idea.
Don't you mean: ANY of a bad idea is, in the beginning, middle and end, ALWAYS a bad idea?
Posted by cc | February 12, 2011 5:36 PM
I think the Simpson's episode, "Marge versus the Monorail" comes to mind.
Posted by Erik H. | February 12, 2011 9:09 PM
I support grade separated light rail to the fullest but streetcars are quite possibly the stupidest thing ever.
Posted by ws | February 12, 2011 9:42 PM
I support grade separated light rail to the fullest...
I support it, too.
The farther the separation, the better...
...Seattle sounds close enough to me.
Posted by cc | February 12, 2011 11:56 PM
Actually CC, Seattle would still be too close, I'm thinking more along the lines of the South Pole.
Posted by Native Oregonian | February 13, 2011 8:08 AM
I support grade separated light rail to the fullest
How about grade separated Congress-critters, instead? I give Blumie an F. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean we can get rid of him, because if we turn him out of office there, Portlanders will elect him mayor.
Posted by Max | February 13, 2011 9:41 AM
Street rail transit, aka Max or the Streetcar versus an automobile = epic fail. Plus a very large number of bicycle riders have had bruising encounters with tracks.
Posted by umpire | February 13, 2011 4:27 PM
And someone totally gets plannerspeak
http://www.planetizen.com/node/47789
Posted by George Anonymuncule Seldes | February 14, 2011 12:27 AM
George, the video says it all, especially the "Clown Town Planning Department".
Posted by naw | February 14, 2011 9:19 AM