>>1308228I am not against mass transit, I just hate when it is a government lead initiative simply because it often costs way more than a simple road, has inconvenient operation times, has government employment practices that gives jobs to incompetent morons and pays them way more than they are worth, will often have a day that it won’t run (Sunday), and often isn’t 24/7, and often in not so dense cities, it is slower than cars.
My preference would be:
1. Alllow private bus and van rideshares to operate.
2. Let virtually anyone operate an unregulated enter at your own risk taxi service along with having a regulated official service.
3. If we just have to waste money, then I want a subsidized shinook helicopter service picking up a various heliports and delivering to the roofs of downtown.
But mostly I tend to be against rail operations since they are fixed and can only go one direction at a time. I’ve attempted to use them and it just can’t beat the convenience that a car gives on traffics worst day. It has a host of reasons, but mostly it is due to having to go out of the way to get to the train station only to have to wait for the train and then what would have been a 40 minute drive with backroads or shitty traffic on the highways take about 45 minutes in the train. The only time DFW’s rails have been useful to me has been when going to the American Airlines arena. The only people that I’ve seen riding as regulars have been those working at the hospital or in either downtown as they’ve had a convenient stop. But mostly it is an overpriced inconvenient novelty. Heck, I’ve even delivered red dye diesel to them. Had the maintenance manager see an Amtrak pass by and he said that he heard that Amtrak barely maintains their trains. It was an interesting thing to see, and I have some affinity’s for the TRE, but it is mostly a white elephant at this point.
