Comments on: Forging Ahead http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2006/256 Random rants from a civil servant in Houston, TX Fri, 18 May 2012 03:11:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: DrHeinous http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2006/256#comment-289 DrHeinous Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:39:13 +0000 http://houblog.com/wp/?p=256#comment-289 Tearing up Richmond will be a disaster. Probably a good place for a rail line as any, but it will be a disaster. Of course, something like a monorail or elevated train would seem to make a lot more sense (and work during the frequent flooding, and not get into wrecks with cars constantly). But that's just me. Tearing up Richmond will be a disaster. Probably a good place for a rail line as any, but it will be a disaster.

Of course, something like a monorail or elevated train would seem to make a lot more sense (and work during the frequent flooding, and not get into wrecks with cars constantly). But that’s just me.

]]> By: ubu http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2006/256#comment-288 ubu Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:58:49 +0000 http://houblog.com/wp/?p=256#comment-288 Of course. Nobody wants the rail to run down Westpark because of demand or need! They want it to run down Westpark because then it's not destroying their businesses, property values, or quality of life on Richmond. Which, if the people who supposedly would stand to benefit the most from the convenience of public transport on their front doorstep don't want it, that should alert everyone as to how bad an idea it is. Personally, I'd support just about any route, as long as they got the damn thing off ground level. But elevated is supposedly noisy. While that's true for freeways, I think more could be done to quiet trains. Of course. Nobody wants the rail to run down Westpark because of demand or need! They want it to run down Westpark because then it’s not destroying their businesses, property values, or quality of life on Richmond. Which, if the people who supposedly would stand to benefit the most from the convenience of public transport on their front doorstep don’t want it, that should alert everyone as to how bad an idea it is.

Personally, I’d support just about any route, as long as they got the damn thing off ground level. But elevated is supposedly noisy. While that’s true for freeways, I think more could be done to quiet trains.

]]> By: Laurence Simon http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2006/256#comment-287 Laurence Simon Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:04:10 +0000 http://houblog.com/wp/?p=256#comment-287 This is where I rubber-stamp the post with "METRO already runs a bus down Westpark called the 9 that is never full, runs on the least frequent schedule of any route, and doesn't run on Sunday." This is where I rubber-stamp the post with “METRO already runs a bus down Westpark called the 9 that is never full, runs on the least frequent schedule of any route, and doesn’t run on Sunday.”

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