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> Cost prohibitive doesn't mean there's no money, it means money used wouldn't be worth it. Yes, light rail sucks (you will get no argument from me on that). I
by rjkennedy98 7y ago
> Cost prohibitive doesn't mean there's no money, it means money used wouldn't be worth it.
Yes, light rail sucks (you will get no argument from me on that). Its basically the least functional of all public transit, and often times I believe is put in to make people hate transit since it is less functional
> As for road expenditures, in both Houston and Dallas, a large amount of new money towards them use private money on toll roads
That's great that they have toll roads. I still think most people completely underestimate how unsustainable this type of development is. In 50 years these sunbelt cities will be falling apart with strip malls collapsing and pot holes in the roads.
- tmm84 7y agoI remember when light rail was proposed. The thing that got me at the time was it was a single line and it went a very short distance (the goal was to have people not park in downtown if I remember because downtown Houston is a pain to park). After the first line was built the number of people who had traffic accidents with the light rail trains were staggering. The light rail even switches lanes from one side of the street to the other with cars having to stop for the train to cross. Downtown is where they aimed it but there wasn't much room to properly develop and design a line there. If they had developed/designed it to bring people into town from the suburbs it would have been better I think.