tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17418367.post6688257274580779725..comments2023-10-06T04:45:46.577-04:00Comments on DebLite: Chris Bortz: Lost in TranslationThatDeborahGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02235918238595525061noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17418367.post-53142081152184044842009-09-09T10:06:00.645-04:002009-09-09T10:06:00.645-04:00The most recent data cited are from Jonathan Richm...The most recent data cited are from Jonathan Richmond's 1998 hatchet job on rail which almost certainly used 1990 Census data - data from 19 years ago. <br /><br />There are plenty of stories out there to the contrary -- about light rail and streetcar systems that have opened this decade and are being expanded.<br /><br />By the way, the economists who studied the Cincinnati Streetcar John Schneiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17864316709800576965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17418367.post-38062968556159584472009-09-09T08:10:41.230-04:002009-09-09T08:10:41.230-04:00From Chris Bortz himself on streetcar funding:
Is...From Chris Bortz himself on streetcar funding:<br /><br /><i>Is there a funding gap? You bet. <b>No other city in the country has been able to build a streetcar system without a dedicated tax.</b> “You can’t do that here. Taxes are too high,” they say. O.K. Then let’s put our heads together and figure out how to fill the gap</i><br /><br />******<br />Why should we put our heads together andThatDeborahGirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02235918238595525061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17418367.post-67178214851452466742009-09-09T01:16:33.425-04:002009-09-09T01:16:33.425-04:00... If the money is to be spent on transportation,...... If the money is to be spent on transportation, then how about working on, not getting people downtown, but out to the suburbs where the jobs are...<br /><br />There was a plan for this, called Metro Moves, and the voters of Hamilton County voted it down by a wide margin. It was a sales tax increase which this proposal is not. The problem with public transit in the exurbs is that they are by CityKinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09068481950069401281noreply@blogger.com