Curbside Is The Only Right Answer
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Originally Posted by
Detroitnerd
Oh, yes. This curbside light rail is going to be wonderful. Of course, even though it seems that every transit planner in the world thinks curbside light rail is an idiotic idea, deep down they really just resent Dan Gilbert's money.
When cars are zipping by light rail vehicles that are stuck behind somebody's illegally parked hooptie, waiting for a tow truck, metro Detroiters will have even more reasons to laugh at "mass transit."
Who in God's name would want a street car in the middle of the road? Let me get this straight: Put stations in the middle of the road where riders have to stand around feeling unsafe, waiting for a street car after they have crossed over a busy street and enter into a station that blocks the entire road and divides Woodward into a cluttered mess? The entire purpose of the street car is to allow riders to easily and simply get on at the curb to ride down to some other relatively close location. It fuels commerce. It allows people to go to lunch up up to 3.5 miles away without having to worry about parking their car. It will be incredible for downtown citizens and visitors to move around and circulate from the river all the way to the Boulevard and back or any where else in between. These systems are wildly successful in downtowns all over America for the very reason they are curbside and NOT foolishly in the middle. In addition, some of you malcontents, don't even understand how this thing is going to work. The stations are going to jet out one lane to meet the street car at the second lane of Woodward from the curb on each side. No car parked on the curb would ever block the trains' route. Some of you nasty and bitter people deep down want to continue to wallow in your misery. You hate progress and you hate when people [[like Penske, Gilbert, Ilitch, etc...) actually do things and get things done. You are the problem and you are the reason Detroit has been so F'd up all of these years. Progress. Investment. Jobs. Business. Commerce. Energy. Optimism. Light over darkness. Connectivity over barriers. Some of you pathetic old hippie souls need to get a life. Detroit is coming back big with or without you. How about taking that rage that stirs inside of you and try putting to good use like creating something instead of typing venom into a keyboard? That would be a change, huh? Wake up brothers, the train is moving and if you stand there on the tracks with your stinky and polluted outlooks you gonna be flat ran over. Literally and figuratively. Maybe that would be best for everyone, though?!