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Friday, August 5, 2011

Petitioning for Bus Service Restorations

 Discussion of the OPAL petition HERE!
Here is a comment that I thought was important in the discussion.

Don't forget "freeloading pedal pushers" and "car haters".
Your words not mine Bob.
You guys clearly are a "streetcar lobby" are you not?
That's your right, and your lobby is highly effective.
I don't need to remind you that the streetcars are duplicating already existing services, which of course are the bus.
But bus service is not "sexy" so won't attract "development", hence the streetcar concept. And its a concept that has taken hold around the country.
But to my eyes, and the eyes of organizations like OPAL, this is an elitist hijacking of scarce transit resources that should be used for people that need transit not people that need condo's.
Put me on the Opal side of the argument.

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