Posted on 11/25/2012 7:14:51 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
At the end of a recent community meeting on the state transportation system, a grandmotherly woman with a lyrical Caribbean accent strode up to the top transportation official in Massachusetts, dispensing with pleasantries.
“Let me tell you something,” she told Transportation Secretary Richard A. Davey. “I am so upset with Number 28.”
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
The “Dukakis Center”?! Isn’t that downtown near Stalin Square?
Blacks complaining that their subsidized housing isn’t in prime locations.
only fools commute to Boston
Boston needs to do like Atlanta. MARTA here once hired a Public Housing Queen as its CEO.....rail lines went to places like Perry Homes and the like instead on the north side where suburban ridership could have made it more profitable.
I don’t really care how Boston gets around. Just another Blue City in an ocean of Urban wastefulness.
http://www.wbur.org/2012/11/19/beverly-scott-mbta
Beverly Scott, who will officially assume the post of MBTA general manager on Dec. 17, was given a three-year contract by the T’s board of directors in September after leading Atlanta’s mass transit system for five years.
Yeah! That’s gonna work out real swell!
Recently I was visiting Boston on business. Driving around there was a big headache with traffic plus many streets are not well signed. Easy to get lost especially if one doesn’t use GPS—like me. The older I get the less I enjoy crowded, congested cities and locations.
Well then, Obamallini should simply order the racist buses to go faster or he’ll have the drivers shot.
We perfected the solution in the 1950s...tear down the slums to build city freeways and expressways. We called it “Urban Renewal.” Try it again.
This congestion is meant to discourage private auto use and encourage mass transportation and bicycling. Blacks hit the hardest. That's the ticket, vote socialist.
she's free to take her Caribbean accent BACK to the Caribbean if she doesn't like it too...
Drove back one night last month picking up my wife from a trip to California. From the airport all the way north through Atlanta, the expressway lights were dark - no money to light them. They didn’t come back on until somewhere north of Fulton county until we reached Cobb County.
Urban governments are broke; they persist in the graft, greed and minority cronyism and favoritism forsaking all other amenities and services they are sworn to provide. Atlanta has been a prime example since the early 1970s when it elected its first black mayor, Maynard Jackson.
Three decades ago I worked out a way a public school district could make use of the techniques designed by the USPS to route and schedule carrier delivery service ~ the purpose would be to make sure that even on the first day of school no kids were left waiting at a bus stop where no bus ever arrived.
My professor thought it was an excellent idea since local school transportation planners could simply call the local post office to consult with an expert in the way the system worked.
Call it a federal/state cooperative technology symposium.
Within a couple of years the prof convinced the state to adopt the method, and since then we haven't had those first day of school disasters, and costs of running school bus systems have declined (relative to inflation).
The municipal bus systems have never shown any interest in this. They answer first to the top end managers, not to the market need.
There is an enormous gap between those who whine, complain and wallow in self-pity while waiting for others to make their lives just peachy and those who appresiate what they have and build on that to make a better life. THAT is where the gap is.
There is an enormous gap between those who whine, complain and wallow in self-pity while waiting for others to make their lives just peachy and those who appresiate what they have and build on that to make a better life. THAT is where the gap is.
The real issue is simple that commuting by car is apparently faster than commuting by bus. Wow, if that surprises anyone you need a serious reality check. Busses are big, less maneuverable, accelerate and decelerate slower, and make a lot of stops along meandering routes rather than simple point-to-point driving in a private automobile.
The whole idea of public transportation is that it is, well, public. Anyone can take it, even those people in their cars zooming past the busses. Yes, it costs some money, yes it takes some amount of time. So why would people go to the extra expense, stress, and hassle of driving themselves? There must be some benefit(s) to it. Turns out there are benefits private transportation - that's why people go to the expense of owning a car.
Now, the typical lib lurker here is probably thinking "We could and should fix this, make it fair!" They'll decide to use our money (via taxes) to buy everyone a car so they can commute at the same speed. The ultimate result will be outrageous traffic, no parking, wasted fuel, and everyone sharing the misery of a slow commute. Or they'll outlaw private cars and commuting by car - again making everyone share the misery.
How about instead we make it truly fair and inject a little freedom of choice and liberty in there. Everyone gets to decide just how much their time is worth. If it is worth enough, they'll save up and buy a car, if not, they'll use public transportation. Maybe a car isn't an option due to financial reasons. Well, if it is important enough, they'll prioritize it over other things, maybe even work on bettering themselves, getting a better job, etc. so they can afford that car.
The fundamental lesson is you cannot give people anything you haven't first taken from someone else. You cannot impose fairness without being brutally unfair to someone. Freedom and liberty mean allowing people to make their own choices, even if they result in disparities, inequalities, and apparent unfairness. You can't "fix" any of that without fascism.
***tear down the slums to build city freeways and expressways.***
I have read that the only part of I-40 that is unfinished is through Memphis Tn as it will go right throught the slumiest part of town.
They had no problem with that in Nashville. They tore them out and built the freeway.
So now public transportation is racist? We’re supposed to have liberal angst and find solutions to this new alleged problem? Really?? Are these liberals for real???
In other words, affordable housing is scarce and often far from desirable subway and rail stations. Those who can afford to drive largely do so, because it is faster. And a transit system built up over a century to funnel commuters toward downtown Boston does a poorer job connecting to the service and physical-labor jobs not concentrated downtown — meaning longer, slower bus rides, often with transfers.
As usual progressives break everything down by race (victim status). Did anyone ever think that the reason for this is
a) It's more profitable to run transportation lines from certain areas.
OR
b) More convenient mass transit to an area makes the property in that area worth more (supply & demand) so people with higher incomes tend to gravitate there.
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