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Old 06-12-2023, 08:23 AM
 
Location: Houston, Tx.
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No...Houston LOST all of the battles to get funding.

Yep....Because I have to keep drilling it into your head hoping you'll comprehend it at least ONCE!!

Hardly ANY transit systems are PROFITABLE...But doesn't mean they're not NEEDED.


Anything written in RED is pertaining to Houston

Anything in BLUE is pertaining to DALLAS.

Nah, we'll get it eventually. That's the beauty of time and potential...they'll run into each other one day.

Unlike your precious shiny train system, which already pretty much built out...and STILL no riders. Just a big money-draining machine on which those billions of dollars spent maintaining it would do untold wonders if put toward something actually USEFUL.

At least Houston's buses combined with the little light rain we already have actually MAKES money, rather than squander it.
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Old 06-12-2023, 08:56 AM
 
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Nah, we'll get it eventually. That's the beauty of time and potential...they'll run into each other one day.

Unlike your precious shiny train system, which already pretty much built out...and STILL no riders. Just a big money-draining machine on which those billions of dollars spent maintaining it would do untold wonders if put toward something actually USEFUL.

At least Houston's buses combined with the little light rain we already have actually MAKES money, rather than squander it.
Just did the math. DART's OPEX per regular passenger (e.g. ones who ride the system e.g. at least every couple of days), assuming that all of the passenger ride revenue is from passholders, is over $40,000/passenger per year. It would be cheaper to buy each one of those passengers a Toyota Camry every 5 years than to keep operating DART. I'm sure Toyota is happy to cut us taxpayers a deal for 25,000 Camrys.

....and us taxpayers don't even change out our own cars every 5 years.
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Old 06-12-2023, 11:24 AM
 
Location: Houston, Tx.
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Just did the math. DART's OPEX per regular passenger (e.g. ones who ride the system e.g. at least every couple of days), assuming that all of the passenger ride revenue is from passholders, is over $40,000/passenger per year. It would be cheaper to buy each one of those passengers a Toyota Camry every 5 years than to keep operating DART. I'm sure Toyota is happy to cut us taxpayers a deal for 25,000 Camrys.

....and us taxpayers don't even change out our own cars every 5 years.

Wow.

That's just...INSANE!!
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Old 06-12-2023, 11:57 AM
 
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..It's okay you two.....it's not the end of the world.
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Old 06-12-2023, 12:28 PM
 
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Hunny buns you still on this DART thing when there is soooooo much better things you could brag about?

Isn't Fort Worth getting like a brand law school building downtown and also building their new TCU Medical school?

Sooooo much going on and you stuck on this choose Choo.

I got an idea, next time I'm in DFW I will hit you up so we can go riding DART all day and get on and off at each station so we can boost ridership.
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Old 06-12-2023, 02:06 PM
 
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Hunny buns you still on this DART thing when there is soooooo much better things you could brag about?

Isn't Fort Worth getting like a brand law school building downtown and also building their new TCU Medical school?

Sooooo much going on and you stuck on this choose Choo.

I got an idea, next time I'm in DFW I will hit you up so we can go riding DART all day and get on and off at each station so we can boost ridership.
LMAO. Y'all will probably have the entire train car to yourself too which I'm sure dallasboi will frame as a being like a private limo experience.

"See, in Dallas even our trains are LUXURY! You get to ride by yourself without any other people around to annoy you! That's why we're the BEST!!"
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Old 06-12-2023, 02:27 PM
 
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LMAO. Y'all will probably have the entire train car to yourself too which I'm sure dallasboi will frame as a being like a private limo experience.

"See, in Dallas even our trains are LUXURY! You get to ride by yourself without any other people around to annoy you! That's why we're the BEST!!"
That sounds so romantical.
I might have to bring champagne
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Old 06-12-2023, 02:51 PM
 
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Hunny buns you still on this DART thing when there is soooooo much better things you could brag about?

Isn't Fort Worth getting like a brand law school building downtown and also building their new TCU Medical school?

Sooooo much going on and you stuck on this choose Choo.

I got an idea, next time I'm in DFW I will hit you up so we can go riding DART all day and get on and off at each station so we can boost ridership.
I'm illustrating what a waste of money it is.

Like I said, it's cheaper to buy all the regular riders a Toyota Camry than to keep operating that bottomless money pit.
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Old 06-12-2023, 02:52 PM
 
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I'm illustrating what a waste of money it is.

Like I said, it's cheaper to buy all the regular riders a Toyota Camry than to keep operating that bottomless money pit.
I know.
My post was directed at Dallasboi
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Old 06-13-2023, 06:05 AM
 
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The more people that choose to move to Houston........The harder it will be to balance them all on top of that SHOT GLASS.


PICTURE THIS!
:....


First....The shot glass will resemble a bucket of KFC Chicken with a few drumsticks poking above the rim.


Second .......A MINIATURE REPLICA of a Bucket of movie popcorn with 2 or 3 inches of popcorn ABOVE THE RIM!!!!


Third .....An Ice-cream Cone with One scoop ....Then two scoops......

Fourth.....An EAR OF CORN!!!!!


.....A COTTON CANDY CONE!!!!!



................................THE GOOD! YEAR! BLIMP??!!!!!......................Get a rope.


By that time ....All of that EXTRA WEIGHT....From all of the additional transplants That WILL MOVE TO HOUSTON in the FUTURE.........Will cause that BABY SHOT GLASS (where the pilot of the BLIMP is sitting)to SINK Soooooo far into that ALREADY SINKING....MUDDY...SWAMPY, MOSQUITO-BEARING, OIL-SATURATED QUICKSAND .

TRANSPLANTS will expect a BIG CITY TRANSIT SYSTEM when they get there............. .Imagin the DISAPPOINTMENT when they see that it's MICROSCOPIC!!


.Houston you are TOO BIG!! to still be wearing Pampers..........GROW UP!!!

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