http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/08/29/alvarez-proposes-cutting-bus-routes/ Moving Together, Faster Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:47:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/08/29/alvarez-proposes-cutting-bus-routes/#comment-9750 The Overhead Wire Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:30:26 +0000 http://www.transitmiami.com/?p=2651#comment-9750 What the hell does flexible mean anyway? Like no one will ride it? Or perhaps no developer is going to invest near it. We need to have an honest discussion about what flexibility means and doesn't mean. This is an issue of over emphasis of cars and roads over moving people. It starts from the top at the President of the USA and moves all the way down to people in cities who have to make hard decisions about where funding goes because of historic underinvestment. If Miami would have built out the system in the first place, you might be looking more like Washington DC. Shortsightedness lasts a long time. What the hell does flexible mean anyway? Like no one will ride it? Or perhaps no developer is going to invest near it. We need to have an honest discussion about what flexibility means and doesn’t mean. This is an issue of over emphasis of cars and roads over moving people. It starts from the top at the President of the USA and moves all the way down to people in cities who have to make hard decisions about where funding goes because of historic underinvestment. If Miami would have built out the system in the first place, you might be looking more like Washington DC. Shortsightedness lasts a long time.

]]> http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/08/29/alvarez-proposes-cutting-bus-routes/#comment-9744 Anonymous Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:22:44 +0000 http://www.transitmiami.com/?p=2651#comment-9744 I might even agree that the metrorail decision is not only one of the biggest boondoggle decisions ever, but it is the single biggest factor that could cause Miami Dade County to go bankrupt! Commissioner Gimemez's new transit initiative is to use lower tech, less expensive, more flexible transit technology rather than metrorail. We all need to get onboard and support this initiative. I might even agree that the metrorail decision is not only one of the biggest boondoggle decisions ever, but it is the single biggest factor that could cause Miami Dade County to go bankrupt! Commissioner Gimemez’s new transit initiative is to use lower tech, less expensive, more flexible transit technology rather than metrorail. We all need to get onboard and support this initiative.

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