Louisville is booming... What do we need next? (Hazel: theatre, high school)

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Originally Posted by louroclou

uh oh... You've come to the wrong place -

Do you mean Kentucky or this forum?

[louroclou]

Oh, there are no doubt weirdos in this forum, but I meant Kentucky... but I know we're all no match for SoCal weird...!

[Cattknap]

Southern quirky is wonderful....I've met some wonderful strange, odd and delightful people in Kentucky - I didn't consider that a negative at all.

[tomocox]

Please see my thread about Disney's monorail system. It's proven and it doesn't take lots of valuable land. It is not disruptive, and would cross the river easily, too. Yes, there is maintenance, but not too much on the track, mostly inshop replacement of the tires and some outdoors electrical work. The system has been working in LA since 1959!

When one stops to consider that with the mayor for life's downtown plans, how many miles of monorail can be built for the same as the many parking garages and surface streets that must be widened, improved, etc? The current cost of parking downtown is closing in on $5.00 per day. How many billions of dollars does that cost the average worker, especially with Museum Plaza, a squezzed in not much additional parking downtown arena, and at least three major new buildings going up? hmmmmm?

[Peter1948]

Originally Posted by tomocox

Please see my thread about Disney's monorail system. It's proven and it doesn't take lots of valuable land. It is not disruptive, and would cross the river easily, too. Yes, there is maintenance, but not too much on the track, mostly inshop replacement of the tires and some outdoors electrical work. The system has been working in LA since 1959!

When one stops to consider that with the mayor for life's downtown plans, how many miles of monorail can be built for the same as the many parking garages and surface streets that must be widened, improved, etc? The current cost of parking downtown is closing in on $5.00 per day. How many billions of dollars does that cost the average worker, especially with Museum Plaza, a squezzed in not much additional parking downtown arena, and at least three major new buildings going up? hmmmmm?

Tom, its a nice idea, but the Feds are not funding mass transit anymore. And the way our road system is funded is totally screwed. The gas tax pays for roads and maintenence, but then the environmental policy is use less gass. What gives? Bottom line, the Bush administration has driven this country into the ground. Hopefully, we can get a mover and shaker elected, whether it be Obama or anyone, who can turn things around, fix the Middle East fiasco, and turn around the economy. The sub prime mortgage collapse is killing what would otherwise be one of the biggest booms in Louisville's history. However, with the city planting seeds now, it has a bright future ahead of her. If we can continue to repopulate the urban areas, the city will be dense enough to support a monorail. Pretty much the only city I know of who has recently begun a new mass transit system is Charlotte, and when you look at the density of projects sprouting up around Lynx stops there, it ios simply phenomonal. THAT's how you build a city and that's why when you go to cities like DC, Chicago, and NYC, there are people and shops everywhere....mass transit allows this.

[cartomanlex]

"Tom, its a nice idea, but the Feds are not funding mass transit anymore."

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one. What the Feds are doing is listening to many ones and calling it the many. The one thing that they forget is that each one is vastly different from all the other ones. If each one is going in a separate direction(much like the electrons in a nuclear reaction) then we all know what will happen(catastrophic explosion). Given the right fuel conditions, we might just be priming ourselves for just that. Equal funding for mass transit could be the control rods we are looking for.

People will not get out of their cars until it cost them more than the alternative transit mode.

[Visvaldis]

Mass transit in Louisville would be a huge plus, but without federal funds and the recent announcements by the newly elected governor about Kentucky's financial crisis I don't think any plans will be made soon, much less any construction.

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Originally Posted by Visvaldis

Mass transit in Louisville would be a huge plus, but without federal funds and the recent announcements by the newly elected governor about Kentucky's financial crisis I don't think any plans will be made soon, much less any construction.

As much as it pains me to say it, I completely agree with everything you said. I even think our bridge projects are in serious danger of being postponed or canceled. Hope I'm wrong.

[larryreaves]

Keep Louisville Weird is pushing the same agenda.

Good Stuff

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Originally Posted by Off Topic

As much as it pains me to say it, I completely agree with everything you said. I even think our bridge projects are in serious danger of being postponed or canceled. Hope I'm wrong.

Heck, now they're talking about making them toll.

Williams: Bridge tolls are likely