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For all that tax revenue, the NC legislature can stop wasting it on redecorating the state capitol and build a mass transit line in between Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. They need to do that while there is still open space.
When i hear oh but it is too built out to put in mas transit, light rail I laugh. You have elected worthless politicians. Crooks like up north.
Build some mass transit infrastructure. Build light rail do something.
Do you think it would be a big hit?
How many people on here that actually LIVE in NC now, feel it would be something that would be beneficial to their lifestyle etc.
to incorporate it into?
Do you think it would be a big hit?
How many people on here that actually LIVE in NC now, feel it would be something that would be beneficial to their lifestyle etc.
to incorporate it into?
Personally I would never use it.
You might use it when gasoline is 6 bucks a gallon or not available. Did you wait on gasoline lines back in the 70s?
Do you think it would be a big hit?
How many people on here that actually LIVE in NC now, feel it would be something that would be beneficial to their lifestyle etc.
to incorporate it into?
Personally I would never use it.
Well, since this is obviously directed at me, it surely sounds like urbywan lives in NC now.
You may never use it autumn. They said that here in Houston, before they built it. Everyone loves to pile onto the freeways, burn gas moving nowhere, so they can have their own car and their own stereo and their own pink fuzzy dice hanging on the rear-view mirror. Then they build a rail line from downtown through one section of the city and people took to it. Many people don't ride it in the city, but that's because it only where some people in the city have access to it. That will change in the future. We built a light rail system halfway across the largest city (space-wise) in the country in as much time as it takes NC to build a simple length of freeway (like that US 70 bypass thing they are building through NW Johnston County - now they are saying it will not be done until 2011. We are supposed to have two brand-new light rail lines up by then.
Our light rail revitalized and helped gentrify run-down parts of Houston (including the area where I live). It could do the same in Raleigh and Durham. You could have a line extending from downtown eastward along New Bern to WakeMed and possibly out to, say, Wake Forest. Much of the area around WakeMed is blighted. But a transit line would promote business growth there and then more upwardly-mobile, decent people will come into the area and force the undesirable element out (mostly through a rise in property values raising taxes, which in turn would cause those apartments to raise rents and/or shut down and sell out). This may not help people out in the suburbs, but it would do a lot for the inner city.
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