Sure you are. My point was a simple one. I get the feeling that you're throwing a lot of procedural and organizational jazz around, and maybe some fine semantic points, but I don't understand how you can say when it comes to expanding roads and building transit that our priorities aren't fucked.
Didn't we just about get done pounding a thread into the ground about a multiBILLION-dollar expansion of I-94 to ease congestion? That's what MDOT wants. It's pretty clear. And what was the expansion of Hall Road if not reckless overbuilding of roads when we don't have the money to maintain what we have?
Again, these points about congestion don't address the fucked-up priorities...
I already know all that. You have to go back to what Lansing, MDOT and SEMCOG want and legitimize. They are the ones who decide what "transit mix" we're going to have and then when transit advocates don't get the goods, it's cold comfort to bring up "lack of flexibility." What about the priorities being totally fucked in the first place? Pay no attention to that meeting behind the curtain ...
What is this "claim" shit? It has been widely reported that it cost $50 million. Hell, it was reported with PRIDE.
http://rochesteravonhistory.blogspot...r-history.html
Yeah, because the money can only go to the things we already have set up, which are backward [[split transit agencies, bus-only, money-gobbling systems). And they struggle because they are transit systems of last resort. Because nobody is seriously willing at the planning stage to invest in transit because, again, of FUCKED UP PRIORITIES.
DP, you fail to understand what I am talking about: Broad, long-lasting and completely fucked perspectives on what's worth funding and what's not. You can shake a bunch of rules and regulations at me, but they dance around the real issue which is one of perception and education of the average Frank Rizzo. You're getting bogged down in the paperwork, and I'm talking about the big picture, get it?
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