Comments on: Tri-Rail in Serious Jeopardy

By: reason

reason — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:14:07 +0000

Before you bash me for my comments, I would like to say that I’m a big proponent of mass transit. I would love to see it effectively implemented. Unfortunately Tri-rail is an abysmal failure. There are many reasons for this, but the facts speak clearly. There are 5,414,772 people in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties. The highest ridership in it’s 20 year history was 18,452. That’s 00.34% of the population in the tri rail area actually using the train. Of course the Tri-rail faces impending doom. It costs tax payers millions of dollars every year for virtually no return. Almost no one uses it. Now we are in the middle of a state wide budget crises. Teachers, firefighters and law enforcement are being laid off in alarming numbers. Perhaps you should re-evaluate your priorities. You could start by demanding that your legislators eliminate the waste, fraud and abuse in state and local government, so that we could actually afford to successfully implement mass transit.

By: evie99

evie99 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:39:34 +0000

Why in a time like this when ridership is increasing. Did they think about the traffic on I-95 and the turnpike? Do they really want 10,000 + cars on the road at tush hour. I take the train from Deerfield to Davie and the train is always packed. People do not want to be bothered by traffic even if gas is cheap.

By: Christine Acosta

Christine Acosta — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:43:21 +0000

I just moved back to miami and am commuting to Davie and Boca Raton to get to FAU. I think that the importance of having a reliable transit system is of upmost importance for the uplifting and progressiveness of the city and south florida for that matter. Plus it works well against the energy crisis as well as the environment. I hope our leaders listen soon, because I might just run for public office in the near future.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:08:34 +0000

This string caught my attention, but still a little surprised there isn’t as many comments as I expected. I’ll keep checking back since this is a hot topic for me personally.

By: Eliot

Eliot — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:25:18 +0000

… disregard my last message :O)

By: Warmonger

Warmonger — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:49:47 +0000

Eliot –

It’s called “sarcasm.” Did you read the second paragraph? Take a deep breath, go back, and see if you get the humor.

I ride Tri-Rail and fully support it. The point is that the system is not going to be saved by the current line up of legislators.

By: Eliot

Eliot — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:52:42 +0000

Warmonger,

I tried to write a response to your invigorating comment but after the first 2 paragraphs i realized that you just don’t care. You are a typical Miamian who doesn’t care about anything of true societal, and environmental importance. Miami suffers a great deal from people like you who just don’t care, don’t try, don’t bother. and your concept of a mass transit system is childish. You should take a vacation and visit other world cities so you can appreciate better what a mass transit system could do for a city like Miami. While your at it you should also visit the everglades, we are the only ones in the world who have such a beautiful ecosystem living right in our backyards.

I think we should all pull together and figure out ways to make a difference. I’m sorry if you gave up on the issues but i haven’t. I don’t wish to explain to you their importance either. Those who care have already done their research and have come to the same conclusion that i have. we need mass transit, we need to save the everglades, we need urbanization, we need new fuels that don’t hurt the environment, we don’t need lazy people who don’t care, are ignorant, slightly racial, and overly pessimistic.

…and by the way.. im not a hippie…have a sun shinny day!

By: Warmonger

Warmonger — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:22:58 +0000

Quit whining, you hippies. We have sunshine. Our schools are just as good as almost any you’d find in Mississippi or even Arkansas. And we may move the UDB a few blocks or so, but hey – alligators don’t vote, and what kind of communist favors egrets over Lowe’s anyway? Sure we don’t recycle, but that’s for those egg-headed liberals in Berkeley, not manly men. Buses? Trains? That’s for poor people with dark skin, and I’m tired of giving welfare queens my tax dollars. Stop whining about your public transit and worry about getting us back to cheap gas. And did I mention we have sunshine? …

Thus the mindset that got us where we are today.

On a more serious note, putting people who hate the idea of competent government in charge of our government is like putting a pedophile in charge of your schools – a profoundly bad idea. Florida, I submit, is Exhibit A. Tri-Rail’s predicament is just further evidence in support of this proposition. I’d love to say we can lobby, we can agitate, we can send testy letters – but it’s spitting in the wind, so long as folks who pander to the affluent at the expense of the many and who believe that the best government is no government at all run the show. You can’t make a better case for support than Tri-Rail has, and it still falls on deaf ears. Absent eliminating Rubio and his slimy ilk from the legislature and Crist from the governor’s mansion, you can lobby to your heart’s content to no avail. Lobby and agitate, but come election time, if the same Republicans are returned to Tallahassee, it’s a moot point.

By: kingofrance

kingofrance — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:42:21 +0000

email your senators using this form:

http://www.tri-rail.com/promo/SaveMyTrain/smt.htm

By: Johnny R

Johnny R — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:04:53 +0000

I am with Eliot on this one. If we start to show support and mobilize ourselves we can prevent these fools from destroying Tri-Rail. It makes absolutely no sense that they would destroy Tri-Rail!