If land use changes to make [a neighborhood] not attractive, then you spent a lot of money building tracks where no one wants to ride it, |
It's not a little problem, it's not a maybe problem, ... The viaduct is just a question of when. If you're on the lower level when it goes down, you're dead. |
Streetcars have this wonderful ability to be pleasant to be around. They're not spewing exhaust at you. They're easy to get on. For the most part, they have the advantage over a bus that, like in all rail systems, people have great confidence that there's another one coming. They know where it will go, |
The problem we're having is that people are saying, 'It's not my problem,' ... That is exactly what they said in New Orleans. ... But go ask anybody in New Orleans, 'Would you have paid an extra hundred bucks in taxes last year to replace that levee?' Do you think you'd get any less than 99 percent saying yes? |