Comments on: Transit Issue Raised at County Board http://annarborchronicle.com/2012/01/23/transit-issue-raised-at-county-board/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=transit-issue-raised-at-county-board it's like being there Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:56:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Andy http://annarborchronicle.com/2012/01/23/transit-issue-raised-at-county-board/comment-page-1/#comment-87017 Andy Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:18:26 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=79762#comment-87017 RE: #1 — Jim Rees raises an excellent point. One need look no further than the SMART system next to door to see how opt-out slowly kills public transit systems by a thousand cuts.

]]> By: Alan Goldsmith http://annarborchronicle.com/2012/01/23/transit-issue-raised-at-county-board/comment-page-1/#comment-86968 Alan Goldsmith Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:09:59 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=79762#comment-86968 “Smith did not mention the retreat during opportunities for communications at the Jan. 18 board meeting.”

Of course not. Open and transparent democracy are apparently continue to be something he’s not interested in.

]]> By: Jim Rees http://annarborchronicle.com/2012/01/23/transit-issue-raised-at-county-board/comment-page-1/#comment-86967 Jim Rees Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:41:45 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=79762#comment-86967 Local communities aren’t allowed to opt out of the system of subsidies that keep privately owned automobiles running on our publicly owned roads. If they were, we wouldn’t have the freeway system. So why should they be allowed to opt out of a regional bus system? Unfortunately I think this is a big problem that can’t be solved at a county-wide level. My biggest fear is that we’ll end up with an expensive system that doesn’t work, and a lot of people will be convinced that public transit can’t work, when it really hasn’t been given a chance.

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