I've been screwed out of enough rebates, especially on purchases from Best Buy, on a personal and professional basis that I'm glad that somebody is actually profiting from these marketing hijinks.
You know full well living in the suburbs means having to drive for anything besides your morning jog. It's the nature of the beast. The reality is that it is too expensive to have good mass transit service where there is no mass. The density is in the city, that's where the majority of transit should go.
Park and Ride is the best bet for suburbanites who want to use mass transit. There is no way you can expect decent bus/rail service through all those spaced out communities it would cost too much money. A light rail system of park and ride lots throughout the region would be the service I'd ask for.
As a resident of Seattle, I'm overly pleased with the outcome of the monorail vote. There are basically no empty places in the city to build new housing. Old single home neighborhoods are being torn down and replaced with medium and high density apartment buildings. This inevitably leads to increased density -> increased local population -> increased traffic. This type of environment is perfect for non-grade level mass transit.
Although the project is expensive, it is still cheaper than light rail, the only other non-grade level option. And the project would become more expensive and difficult to implement should we sit by idle and watch as density and traffic continue to increase.
I look forward to riding the completed monorail and hope it succeeds in creating a viable, rapid trasportation alternative to being stuck in traffic in a car or bus.
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I've been screwed out of enough rebates, especially on purchases from Best Buy, on a personal and professional basis that I'm glad that somebody is actually profiting from these marketing hijinks.
You know full well living in the suburbs means having to drive for anything besides your morning jog. It's the nature of the beast. The reality is that it is too expensive to have good mass transit service where there is no mass. The density is in the city, that's where the majority of transit should go.
Park and Ride is the best bet for suburbanites who want to use mass transit. There is no way you can expect decent bus/rail service through all those spaced out communities it would cost too much money. A light rail system of park and ride lots throughout the region would be the service I'd ask for.
As a resident of Seattle, I'm overly pleased with the outcome of the monorail vote. There are basically no empty places in the city to build new housing. Old single home neighborhoods are being torn down and replaced with medium and high density apartment buildings. This inevitably leads to increased density -> increased local population -> increased traffic. This type of environment is perfect for non-grade level mass transit.
Although the project is expensive, it is still cheaper than light rail, the only other non-grade level option. And the project would become more expensive and difficult to implement should we sit by idle and watch as density and traffic continue to increase.
I look forward to riding the completed monorail and hope it succeeds in creating a viable, rapid trasportation alternative to being stuck in traffic in a car or bus.