Comments on: Metrorail News http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/03/27/metrorail-news/ Moving Together, Faster Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:20:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Anonymous http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/03/27/metrorail-news/#comment-6165 Anonymous Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:34:00 +0000 http://www.evolvemiami.org/transitmiami/2008/03/27/metrorail-news/#comment-6165 damn it i want my metro rail extension... how can we get involved to see some realtime effects? mass transit is not a possibility it is a necessity in a city that is filled with horrible traffic congestion. The FTA website likes to focus on the transit issues in Atlanta (not to mention district 4 offices are located in atlanta..how conveniant)....If you build the metro rail people will ride.. especially lines that go into the populated neighborhoods like the ones planned to be built. HOW DO WE GET INVOLVED?? damn it i want my metro rail extension… how can we get involved to see some realtime effects? mass transit is not a possibility it is a necessity in a city that is filled with horrible traffic congestion. The FTA website likes to focus on the transit issues in Atlanta (not to mention district 4 offices are located in atlanta..how conveniant)….If you build the metro rail people will ride.. especially lines that go into the populated neighborhoods like the ones planned to be built. HOW DO WE GET INVOLVED??

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/03/27/metrorail-news/#comment-6155 Anonymous Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.evolvemiami.org/transitmiami/2008/03/27/metrorail-news/#comment-6155 The MIA station is set, it's going to get built whether people like it or not. The problem now is getting funding for the North line and the West line. The MIA station is set, it’s going to get built whether people like it or not. The problem now is getting funding for the North line and the West line.

]]> By: TransitDave http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/03/27/metrorail-news/#comment-6154 TransitDave Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:54:00 +0000 http://www.evolvemiami.org/transitmiami/2008/03/27/metrorail-news/#comment-6154 See current issue of Miami today for MDT's invitation to bid on the Earlington Height's projects..... See current issue of Miami today for MDT’s invitation to bid on the Earlington Height’s projects…..

]]> By: TransitDave http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/03/27/metrorail-news/#comment-6153 TransitDave Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:38:00 +0000 http://www.evolvemiami.org/transitmiami/2008/03/27/metrorail-news/#comment-6153 Steven,<br/><br/>you don't understand that there is no danger of the Earlington Heights extension not getting planned, and funded.....It's pretty much ready to break ground. It is funded with 80% of PTP money, as opposed to 25%. That's because the MPO decided that with the PTP funds, they had a blank check. In fact, it's by far the biggest waste of PTP funds. Had they done it right, the Earlington Heights project could have been paid for by 50% federal money. <br/><br/>These are the types of mismanagement that the municipalities, and the CITT are rightfully upset about, and don't worry, the county commission will find another way to fund the rail car project, now that our CITT has remembered the "independant" part of their title. Steven,

you don’t understand that there is no danger of the Earlington Heights extension not getting planned, and funded…..It’s pretty much ready to break ground. It is funded with 80% of PTP money, as opposed to 25%. That’s because the MPO decided that with the PTP funds, they had a blank check. In fact, it’s by far the biggest waste of PTP funds. Had they done it right, the Earlington Heights project could have been paid for by 50% federal money.

These are the types of mismanagement that the municipalities, and the CITT are rightfully upset about, and don’t worry, the county commission will find another way to fund the rail car project, now that our CITT has remembered the “independant” part of their title.

]]> By: Steven http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/03/27/metrorail-news/#comment-6152 Steven Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:40:00 +0000 http://www.evolvemiami.org/transitmiami/2008/03/27/metrorail-news/#comment-6152 Wow! thats a great idea! deprive the Intermodal Center that is currently under construction of its primary means of connecting to the county system and dump all that money into the north corridor! in doing so, they would throw the project back into planning even more because we still wouldn't be close to coming up with the amount needed to construct the line. It bothers me how these municipalities are so short-sighted and are too busy looking at the trees to see the forrest. Wow! thats a great idea! deprive the Intermodal Center that is currently under construction of its primary means of connecting to the county system and dump all that money into the north corridor! in doing so, they would throw the project back into planning even more because we still wouldn’t be close to coming up with the amount needed to construct the line. It bothers me how these municipalities are so short-sighted and are too busy looking at the trees to see the forrest.

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