Regardless of whose fault it is, when you have 100 accidents in a very short time frame, it is beyond clear that something is fundamentally flawed.
You're right. The other 98 were the result of crappy planning by Metro. What a waste of taxpayer money. I've been spending a lot of time in Dallas the past couple of months. Their system doesn't share the same path as automobile traffic like parts of Houston's does. They have much fewer incidents, also.
In other news, two cars collided for the 283,295,731,480,982,538,748,979,021,573,898,753,814,879th time on my way home from work yesterday, causing me to wait another hour and miss 'mah damn tv shows. So I guess the highway system and automobiles are a pretty crappy idea too.
Well said. TJ and Bigtexxx are just pissed because this is the ONLY election republicans "lost" is the last 7 years. Of the 100 accidents, not one death (if I'm not mistaken). Just a little body work and paint. So get over it.
i love the train. i love that it's here. i'm a huge rail proponent. having said that, i do wish they would have designed this system in such a way as to interfere with traffic far less. having it running along traffic is not the smartest idea.
Yeah, apparently there are 98 people who don't see the big white train coming. Maybe their vision is flawed. Most likely, I think their brains are flawed.
I agree but any alternate solutions were A) unproven technology or B) too expensive to build. That means any alternate would have been defeated on election day. I saw one system where the trains hang from wires, similar to a gondola or an amusement park ride. The cost would have been cheaper to build because you don't have to tear up streets and the constructions is simply erecting polls and wires. It solves everybody's problems. Why didn't we do that? Well, two reasons. First, nobody has actually ever built one before. Secondly, it was a little too space-aged...like the monorail idea which was defeated in the 80s. So light-rail it is. For all its faults, because of status quo Houstonians like TJ and Bigtexxx who would have opposed ANYTHING that was put forth other than more freeways, it is the best we could do. I live nearby and use it regularly. I'm already seeing how people are adapting their lives to use it. Several people on my street now walk to work. I can't wait for the next segments to be built. I'll be able to get to the Galleria...on foot!!!!
You've got to be kidding me. I've long been promoting the bus rapid transit solution. I am far from opposing ANYTHING, as you say. Where did that comment from you even come from? You're just babbling blinded nonsense again.
Ridiculous comment and irrelevant in every way. Not worth anybody's time to respond to this. by the way - what do you know about Houston's rail issues? You're an 18 year old Ohio resident. Please.
they have light rail in Dallas too. but they segregate it from normal traffic far better than we have here. but don't confuse me with a rail critic..in general, i think it's a good thing.
I know there are people who hate it. I've even read some conservatives who say they hate it because it reminds them of commie socialist Europe...seriously. But, what pisses me off is that the thing passed by a good, wide majority and yet conservatives still tried to block it going all the way to the Texas Supreme Court (where they rightfully had their asses handed to them). Then, conservatives in Washinton BLOCKED funding even after they said they wouldn't AND after they had provided the exact same funds to Dallas and other cities around the country. I mean, talk about friggin' stubborn and ignoring votes that passed easily. This ship has already sailed. Time to pick another battle.
It's true, but they had abandonded rail lines there available to them in the areas they wanted and the train there does go through right of ways and has been involved in its share of accidents, especially in downtown where it is on the street most of the way.
yeah, the corridor chosen would present challenges in doing it another way..no doubt about that. would be far more costly.
