Comments on: OneRail Coalition lobbies for extended rail system

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By: Art Sheldon

Art Sheldon — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:10:36 +0000

The anti-rail transit folk seem to forget that the first suburbs grew up around either light rail or trolley cars. The future can work the same way. Yes, it is true that the current suburbs were designed around the automobile and produced sprawl and massive traffic jams. Let’s go ‘back to the future’ and look at rail as the answer going forward since the car didn’t work out all that well. If we look at building rail as an infrastructure that will support future growth the same way that roads served as the infrastructure that fueled the sprawling suburbs then rail has a chance. Rail will not replace the car rather it will supplement the car. Our population is still growing rapidly and as such there will be a need for new housing in the future. The questions is do we continue on a non-working solution such as building more roads, which yes we will need to do but to what extent, or alternative enviuronmentally friendly transportation options such as rail transit. And also rail can be retrofitted in existing suburbs either during redevelopment or using existing rail or road right of way.

By: davidB

davidB — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:21:21 +0000

How many more millions must the got pump into Amtrak to make it viable?
How much higher can systems like DC Metro raise rates before people just completely stop riding?
NY and London and such subway systems work because the population and employment centers grew up beside the rails. Suburban America did not. With the Nimbly’s and the environmentalists fighting every proposed rail building project, it is hard to imagine rail ever becoming viable in the suburbs as there is just no way or enough space/money to put in enough rails where we need them in order to be a viable alternati e to driving there by car.

By: matk62

matk62 — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:51:37 +0000

I would like to see the rail system extended to make it easier for people to move around a city, but this does not address the vast majority in the suburbs. We need an organized system of paid ride sharing to connect people with mass transit. This would be the best of both worlds that would reduce congestion and help the environment. Let me know what you think at

http://www.Pay4Rides.com

By: ken

ken — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:51:03 +0000

How about a system that works?

This again? People in the US don’t use mass transit much because our population centers have been built up around the automobile. People moved to the suburbs to escape the congestion that makes mass transit work. People hate Amtrak, I have had a half dozen of my my relatives and friends come for a winter visit. One from Charleston, one from Tacoma and several from the Midwest and all hated it.

We pour millions into this stuff every couple of decades, people stay away in droves because it’s inconvenient and unreliable unless you are talking about New York or Chicago. Cities that grew up post WWII sprawled. You can’t even get people to carpool and the high occupant vehicle lanes are way under capacity.

It sounds great and makes sense but people won’t use it. The money should be diverted to something practical and not ideological.