[Free the USA]

I am no fan of government run mass-transit but this system would appear to be cheaper, more flexible and do a better job than the currently proposed Seattle boondoggle.

[Clinging Bitterly]

Might be less expensive than the rail boongoggles in Portland and Seattle but we just don't need it.

And cheaper is relative to cheap - which neither rail or BRT would be.

This is just a case of the LTD board dreaming of ways to get more money and power for their own sake. The benefit to the district is nonexistent.

Dave in Eugene

[Rome2000]

The federal government will pay about 80 percent of the cost, with the rest coming from local matching funds

Thats the goddammned problem in a nutshell.

In Dade thank God there are no local matching funds which is why the rat mayor has been trying to get a one cent sales tax increase so they can start receiving Federal dollars.

The tax was voted down 2 years ago as a "Tax or Tolls" proposition, the tax would either be approved by the voters or the tolls on the local roads would be raised fron 25 to 75cents.

The tax increase was voted down, the Tolls were raised and sure enough here comes the same Democrat SOB again looking to get his penny.

His excuse this time is that "We need to get those Federal dollars"

The idiot is being termed limited out thank God, and he will be the last rat Mayor of Dade, of that I am sure.