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Needs an enema. I am sad to see what has becdome of this place when I don't post. therefore sometime this week I will post a new topic in each forum that only one fo you will actually coherently respond too/get your bees in bonnet before turning said topic in to a forum on the public transportation system of Rochester New York or whatever small minded topic your limited interests allow you to semi-bloviate about. I will also attempt to set records for longest sentances without the use of commas or dashes to firther stimulate.

Knuckles the CLown wrote:Needs an enema. I am sad to see what has becdome of this place when I don't post. therefore sometime this week I will post a new topic in each forum that only one fo you will actually coherently respond too/get your bees in bonnet before turning said topic in to a forum on the public transportation system of Rochester New York or whatever small minded topic your limited interests allow you to semi-bloviate about. I will also attempt to set records for longest sentances without the use of commas or dashes to firther stimulate.

What's wrong with Rochester's transit system? I think it's a perfectly good topic of discussion.

nessman wrote:What's wrong with Rochester's transit system?

Glad you asked. There aren't enough routes, the busses are not often enough, if you want to go anywhere except back and forth on one of the routes then you have to change busses on fucking main street which doubles the time it takes, and the city would rather spend $$$$ on a new underground bus station instead of fixing the first three problems.

How about light rail? Why the fuck does a city that used to have a subway not even consider a light rail at least along a north-south or east-west route? That's great, we can have 4 - 6 lanes of highway all the way out to Canandaigua but nobody will consider light rail.

Why would this bitch of a city even consider dumping public money into a ferry to toronto without first dealing with it's own public transportation system? Somebody who comes here from Toronto without a car would have to take a taxi or a smelly rts bus to get anywhere, even to a car rental place. There's an organization trying to set up a trolly from the port to downtown and do they get even an ounce of help or even interest from the county or the city? nope.

I'm curious what's good about the rochester public transportation system except apparently it provides you a paycheck.

Casual Observer wrote:How about light rail? Why the fuck does a city that used to have a subway not even consider a light rail at least along a north-south or east-west route?

If the subway system couldn't survive back when people actually WANTED to go downtown, what makes you think it would survive now? I'd love to see a light rail system here, but it just ain't gonna happen.

chris wrote:If the subway system couldn't survive back when people actually WANTED to go downtown, what makes you think it would survive now? I'd love to see a light rail system here, but it just ain't gonna happen.

It probably wouldn't but I imagine it's demise had much to do with the fact that anybody who could afford to move out of the city has done so over the last half century. I think it started after the schools were integrated so everybody moved out to economically segregate themselves.

chris wrote:

Casual Observer wrote:How about light rail? Why the fuck does a city that used to have a subway not even consider a light rail at least along a north-south or east-west route?

If the subway system couldn't survive back when people actually WANTED to go downtown, what makes you think it would survive now? I'd love to see a light rail system here, but it just ain't gonna happen.

If you added another million people between Rochester and Canandaigua, and most of them worked in downtown, and you didn't have any real upgrade to the highway system between those two points, then you'd have a good argument for light rail.

The old railroad right-of-way between those two points still exists (now a trail) - so it's just a matter of some land acquisition and laying down new track.

And how much did us taxpayers shell out for that big boat that's just bobbing up and down? Maybe if we don't buy into a ferry and don't buy into a soccer stadium we would have enough money to keep all our schools open. USED to have a trolley... USED to have a subway. Then everyone got cars and moved the hell out. Real problem is the personal space issue. Everyone has thier own shiny coccoon that provides heat, cool, privacy and music of choice. Oh, yeah, and it's mobile.

CLAP CLAP! OK everyone! Give that up and all bunch together in a subway car (or trolley car) and SHARE the space.

When there's no other choice, it'll happen.


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Well, if anything is a board enema, it's this thread. =(

Worm wrote:Well, if anything is a board enema, it's this thread. =(

Yeah, it's a terrible thing for adults to talk about adult things instead of the mindless banter that normally abounds here. One thread on mass transit isn't going to kill you.

AArdvark wrote:And how much did us taxpayers shell out for that big boat that's just bobbing up and down? Maybe if we don't buy into a ferry and don't buy into a soccer stadium we would have enough money to keep all our schools open.

Nothing burns my ass more than that stupid soccer stadium. Does NOBODY remember Holleder Stadium and the Lancers? What a fucking waste of money.

I'd much rather see the millions being pissed away on that stadium put into something more useful to the city, like perhaps roads without gaping potholes in them.