Re: Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail
Lots of irrelevant tangents here while wondering if F-Line has had his blood pressure checked recently, but let me pick out some highlights:
Not sure where you got this from but I merely stated from an economic justice perspective not every dollar should be spent in Boston. Personally I live in the leafy loaded and liberal western suburbs of Boston so the Boston based improvements would benefit me a lot more than South Coast rail which I don't plan on using as I don't live there.
Once built, as I've said repeatedly, the people of this area will need to put up or shut up. As in ride the thing. That will determine economic coattails not the bleating of you or I on this message board. As others have pointed out several times, this is not just a FR or NB centered project as Taunton and other towns along the route benefit as well.
Also have you ever actually been to Fall River, and do you regularly spend time in the city? Honest question, and I'm curious if your opinion is based on first hand, or second hand, knowledge. Its up to Fall River to reconfigure their bus lines as needed to get to the station, or set up a good drop off/pick up and parking area as many resident down there own cars given the sparse public transit available to them.
No offense but this is your most out there post yet. You are more concerned with running transit connections to Connecticut (not in Massachusetts last time I checked), Vermont (ditto), and Montreal (still part of Canada, right?) instead of to taxpaying citizens of our own state? Huh. I'm also curious what trains that would go to North Station presumably (VT, Montreal) would be affected by South Coast rail which goes to South Station, but that's one of those irrelevant tangents that maybe we can save for another thread. While I'm sorry for the good people of Hyannis, population 14,000 and 70 miles away from Boston, how in God's name does that take precedence over the distance and population of the South Coast cities of Taunton, FR and NB? That.Makes.No.Sense.
Finally, I close by saying if you have evidence of double dealing, nefarious intent, or anything else regarding the Admin's true feeling about non Boston related transit, please show your cards.
Lots of irrelevant tangents here while wondering if F-Line has had his blood pressure checked recently, but let me pick out some highlights:
But do go on some more about how Boston is sucking up all the resources from the rest of the state. Or whoever qualifies as "the rest of the state" today in that ever-shifting definition.
Not sure where you got this from but I merely stated from an economic justice perspective not every dollar should be spent in Boston. Personally I live in the leafy loaded and liberal western suburbs of Boston so the Boston based improvements would benefit me a lot more than South Coast rail which I don't plan on using as I don't live there.
The wistful idea of it in some pols' heads about economic justice is not borne out by reality. There will be vanishingly little economic coattails with service so sparse few people can personally or professionally justify taking it. And this project has never EVER answered the question on the Fall River Branch of how buses are going to integrate with the commuter rail while the bus depot is way over at City Hall. There's only one SRTA route that goes to Fall River Depot; it's not even easy to get to the train from within most of the project's own co-host city.
Once built, as I've said repeatedly, the people of this area will need to put up or shut up. As in ride the thing. That will determine economic coattails not the bleating of you or I on this message board. As others have pointed out several times, this is not just a FR or NB centered project as Taunton and other towns along the route benefit as well.
Also have you ever actually been to Fall River, and do you regularly spend time in the city? Honest question, and I'm curious if your opinion is based on first hand, or second hand, knowledge. Its up to Fall River to reconfigure their bus lines as needed to get to the station, or set up a good drop off/pick up and parking area as many resident down there own cars given the sparse public transit available to them.
Oh, and by doing it this way the state also broke Buzzards Bay CR and any chance of non-Cape Flyer Hyannis runs in the process. There is no increased focus on improving transit outside of Boston when the kludge routing no other Administration wanted to hold nose and build ended up directly breaking the chances for tolerable frequencies here, any frequencies on the Cape, and apparently is costing us any realistic chance of funding for establishing a link between Eastern MA to Western MA, Central Connecticut, Vermont, and Montreal.
No offense but this is your most out there post yet. You are more concerned with running transit connections to Connecticut (not in Massachusetts last time I checked), Vermont (ditto), and Montreal (still part of Canada, right?) instead of to taxpaying citizens of our own state? Huh. I'm also curious what trains that would go to North Station presumably (VT, Montreal) would be affected by South Coast rail which goes to South Station, but that's one of those irrelevant tangents that maybe we can save for another thread. While I'm sorry for the good people of Hyannis, population 14,000 and 70 miles away from Boston, how in God's name does that take precedence over the distance and population of the South Coast cities of Taunton, FR and NB? That.Makes.No.Sense.
Finally, I close by saying if you have evidence of double dealing, nefarious intent, or anything else regarding the Admin's true feeling about non Boston related transit, please show your cards.