Only liberals in the federal government would think it’s a good idea to encourage cities to regress their public transportation system back to the 19th Century. But despite offering federal transportation grant money to entice municipalities to take the great leap backwards to streetcars, more and more cities are saying “thanks, but no thanks” to the obsolete technology.
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What is it with libtards and trains anyway?
Ya’ say streetcars are inefficient? Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit.
They are terribly inefficient and what is more, take away the subsidies and they would all vanish within a year.
The reason progs like them is that they do not allow individuals freedom of movement.
I have listened to my own mother taut the virtues of public transportation for the last half decade, but if she has ever used it (and there is a transit stop less than fifty yards from her front door, it is a well kept secret.
In a just world all it would take is for some phony baloney hypocrite to open their pie hole and “shazzam’ that would be the end of their driving privileges.
Gotta catch the trolley to my job at the whippet factory. Ta Ta
Surprised they didnt suggest horses to pull them.
Anonymous? Dang it, my son erased my cookies.
Charlie WalksonWater
Is there ANY public transportation that ISN’T subsidized??
And since MOST of it IS subsidized…..what does that tell you??
That’s right, it’s not affordable.
Maybe it’s cuz making the trains run on time wuz the only thing dictators were ever good at…
Riverside CA is considering this. It is absolutely ridiculous. They just want the money & will do whatever the feds say to get it.
They even held bogus “We want your input” meetings and raved on and on about how the good little citizens were happy to give up their freedom to travel where, when, and how they wish.
Lord help us all!
Cincinnati is building its own streetcar to nowhere. A 3.6 mile loop with 17 stops running 5 streetcars. Did they make the streetcars look cute and old-timey? Nah. They made them look like bullet trains. And they will be verrry slooow bullet trains. First phase cost is 148 million bucks. Do the math-per-mile. Streetcars built in Spain and then disassembled to be reassembled here (’cause they have to be “built in America”) Another boondoggle.
Atlanta’s boondoggle:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/31/us/atlanta-hopes-streetcar-route-will-grow-into-a-traffic-fix.html?_r=0
Additionally, we have “public transportation” called MARTA. The official name is Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. We natives call it something different as the trains/buses don’t reach out into the metropolitan area.
There is no good with “public” transportation. If there was a need that was profitable, the private sector would have taken it on decades ago. The fact they haven’t taken this on shows its a losing proposition.
Public transportation is motion for the rat-people.
Trolleys, trains, high-speed, low-speed, bus, van – it’s all part of the scam to relieve working people of their money. If it could make money, some “greedy capitalist” would already be doing it.
The fact that no one can raise the capital and succeed at the business is proof positive that no one but the maggots and parasites want – or need – it.
And that it’s a license to steal for the politicians.
@JDHasty — “butter my butt and call me a biscuit”.
Bwahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!
I’m Southern and have never heard this — but will use it from now on. 🙂
All Aboard: Atlanta Streetcar Begins Service
http://www.gpb.org/news/2014/12/30/all-aboard-atlanta-streetcar-begins-service
jclady, We call the Atlanta toy train “The Streetcar Named Decay” and since it travels from Centennial Olympic Park to the MLKJ Memorial, the route is “Bomb to the Tomb”.
Baltimore has its version of the above ground subway. It branches out into the suburbs on various routes. They officially call it the “light rail”. Everyone living near a stop calls it “FRIGHT RAIL” because obummer’s sons use it to ride into the suburbs and create havoc.
@Hotlantamike @Thirdtwin — and what is the real meaning of MARTA? 🙂
Although the article says streetcars haven’t been in use in Atlanta in more than 60 years, I remember my mom calling a cab to take us to the Oglethorpe station and we would then get on a cable car to go to Lennox Square. And I’m not 60! (yet)
This is to transportation what smoke signals are to communication, or scorpions in earthen jars are to warfare.
Houston pulled up the tracks to its streetcars in the 1920’s and the democraps are putting them back in 2000’s. It would be cheaper to buy its riders their own cars.
Well…they sure are better looking than the ugly city bus. Maybe that’s how they can get white people to ride them.
jclady:
MARTA = Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta.
I live in Phoenix and I know that one.
We have our own light rail system here in Phoenix. It still (and always will) need subsidies. As someone pointed out above, if it was a money-maker someone would have done it for a profit. All this despite it actually being somewhat useful.
@Cynic — ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!!!! 🙂
Dallas’s rail system is pretty good for getting into and out of the city and we prefer to use it for concerts and things. The last time we rode it we noticed it was getting sketchier and more crowded so we’ll have to see how much we ride in the future.
Tucson bought into this idiocy with their “Streetcar to Nowhere,” wasting 100’s of millions on a boondoggle which was obsolete 100 years ago. All it’s good for is carrying UA students to and from the downtown bars, and impeding the already congested auto traffic, besides being subsidized up the butt! It loops around a couple blocks from our old house but is useless to us because it doesn’t go anywhere we need to go, like a job or even a grocery store.
At least PHX’s will carry you from your hotel to the fancy new convention center, quickly, in air-conditioned comfort. Tucson’s convention center is a sad, decrepit JOKE which was supposed to have been refurbished but the city clowncil stole that money and divied it out to their friends.