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01-22-2009, 12:23 AM
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South Florida public trasportation is underrated for the SOUTH.
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01-22-2009, 04:50 AM
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San Antonio rejected light rail by a wide margin a few years back. However, there's talk that it might be brought back on the ballot. The people in charge should probably look at what made DART so successful.
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01-22-2009, 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by shoe01
San Antonio rejected light rail by a wide margin a few years back. However, there's talk that it might be brought back on the ballot. The people in charge should probably look at what made DART so successful.
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They should. One day Austins light rail could go all the way to SA. |
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01-22-2009, 01:35 PM
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South Florida has alot of VARIETY in there public transit.
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01-22-2009, 01:40 PM
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Location: Atlanta
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^Yes there is a lot of variety, but the rail ridership numbers are abysmal for such a large metro.
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01-22-2009, 03:23 PM
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^Yes there is a lot of variety, but the rail ridership numbers are abysmal for such a large metro.
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Very true. But because of gas prices ridership is rising. |
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01-22-2009, 03:36 PM
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For its size South Florida Transit is abysmal, but in raw numbers it has the 11th highest weekly average in the nation. But I agree, for it's size it's not much. But it's pretty underrated IMHO. Especially with the metro mover that takes you around the whole downtown region. And tri-rail takes you across the WHOLE 3 county South Florida Metro Area 72miles long. Thats pretty BEAST, for a Southern sprawly city. But I dont know whats up with the ridership numbers. They should be waaaaaay higher then they currently are. I remember taking tri-rail as a kid with my mom from West Palm to Little Haiti in Miami(random I know). MARTA is a BEAST and very underrated in MY opinion. So is DART in Dallas. DART is AWESOME. Dallas trasit is gonna be a BEAST in the future. So is Houston. Austin still has a loooong way to go. And SA would be pretty cool. If Austin continues to sprwal Then they should connect Austin and SA.
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01-22-2009, 03:41 PM
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Location: Atlanta
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^Re: the Metromover, I agree polo89. It's quite a nice thing to have for the central core. A lot of places would love to have it.
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01-22-2009, 04:21 PM
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^Re: the Metromover, I agree polo89. It's quite a nice thing to have for the central core. A lot of places would love to have it.
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Yeah it is. Im surprised most places dont. Or do they? |
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01-22-2009, 04:24 PM
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Charlotte has nice ligth-rail. But it dosent go very far at all(for now). It will continue to grow as more people need public transit.
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