http://matatransit.com/dotnetnuke/Portal...rt2001.pdf

The Memphis regional rail line would alleviate many Memphians regarding transportation and a stagnant economy. If we connect downtown and the Aerotropolis with Collierville, Cordova, Millington, Southaven, Desoto County, Millington, and North and South Memphis thousand of citizens will be able to work, travel, and spend money in Memphis without the use of a car. Thus reducing car emissions, promoting health by walking back and forth from rail stations, and increasing tourism and tax revenue. This could catipult Memphis past Nashville and other peer cities.

Eventually the Redbird stadium could be expanded into a MLB park and thousands of fans would board the rail line from each station and flock into the FedEx Forum, Autozone Park, and also ride a trolley towards Pyramid Adventure, Harbor Island, Pyramid Park Hotel, and Pyramid Plaza. Fans of the surrounding areas could also pack the Memphis Tigers home football, baseball, and basketball games as well as other surrounding colleges via the Memphis regional rail.

i would LOVE to leave my car behind in g'town every work morning.

tigerjeb Wrote:i would LOVE to leave my car behind in g'town every work morning.

yeah, it would be nice, but I would hate to get mugged on this rail system.

TigerDieHard Wrote:http://matatransit.com/dotnetnuke/Portal...rt2001.pdf

The Memphis regional rail line would alleviate many Memphians regarding transportation and a stagnant economy. If we connect downtown and the Aerotropolis with Collierville, Cordova, Millington, Southaven, Desoto County, Millington, and North and South Memphis thousand of citizens will be able to work, travel, and spend money in Memphis without the use of a car. Thus reducing car emissions, promoting health by walking back and forth from rail stations, and increasing tourism and tax revenue. This could catipult Memphis past Nashville and other peer cities.

Eventually the Redbird stadium could be expanded into a MLB park and thousands of fans would board the rail line from each station and flock into the FedEx Forum, Autozone Park, and also ride a trolley towards Pyramid Adventure, Harbor Island, Pyramid Park Hotel, and Pyramid Plaza. Fans of the surrounding areas could also pack the Memphis Tigers home football, baseball, and basketball games as well as other surrounding colleges via the Memphis regional rail.

Screw all of that. I'm waiting for my frigging wings to grow in. Clarence got his so now I want mine.

I like the idea of the rail line. Memphis has so much sprawl, that it would make it much easier to get from one place to another. Plus, it would cut back concerns for finding available parking.

They haven't printed enough money yet to build this system. The estimate in 2001 was $1.1 -$1.3 BILLION and was probably considerably underesitmated as these things are. Construction costs have escalated considerably since then.

Aside from that, people will not tolerate the additional travel time involved. Most days you can still drive your car, park and walk to your destination faster than you would be able to with this system.

Until there is a SIGNIFICANT time and cost saving this would be used very similarly to our current transit system, by the lower income groups.

tigerjeb Wrote:i would LOVE to leave my car behind in g'town every work morning.

i'd be more than happy to take a route that follows I-40 to work every morning, for sure.

Every day I see the trolley go down Madison. I've never seen more than 2 people on it at a time. I am afraid that other mass transit would be quite similar except it would cost more.

FCBE TIGER Wrote:

tigerjeb Wrote:i would LOVE to leave my car behind in g'town every work morning.

yeah, it would be nice, but I would hate to get mugged on this rail system.

The odds are greater that your car would be broken into at work than you being mugged on the rail.

TigerDieHard Wrote:http://matatransit.com/dotnetnuke/Portal...rt2001.pdf

The Memphis regional rail line would alleviate many Memphians regarding transportation and a stagnant economy. If we connect downtown and the Aerotropolis with Collierville, Cordova, Millington, Southaven, Desoto County, Millington, and North and South Memphis thousand of citizens will be able to work, travel, and spend money in Memphis without the use of a car. Thus reducing car emissions, promoting health by walking back and forth from rail stations, and increasing tourism and tax revenue. This could catipult Memphis past Nashville and other peer cities.

Eventually the Redbird stadium could be expanded into a MLB park and thousands of fans would board the rail line from each station and flock into the FedEx Forum, Autozone Park, and also ride a trolley towards Pyramid Adventure, Harbor Island, Pyramid Park Hotel, and Pyramid Plaza. Fans of the surrounding areas could also pack the Memphis Tigers home football, baseball, and basketball games as well as other surrounding colleges via the Memphis regional rail.

Considering this regional rail center will never happen. I wonder how much the report generated by MATA cost the taxpaying public.

mairving Wrote:Every day I see the trolley go down Madison. I've never seen more than 2 people on it at a time. I am afraid that other mass transit would be quite similar except it would cost more.

and exactly why should it be expected to have more than 2 people on it?

if you tried to pick out the stupidest and most usless route to put that leg down, Madison would have been it. why not Union. the street with the tourist hotels that runs right past Sun Studios?

19th century technology to the rescue!

I have no idea if it would work in Memphis, but I lived in the northeast for a while. Mass transit was the ONLY way to go. Loved it.

mairving Wrote:Every day I see the trolley go down Madison. I've never seen more than 2 people on it at a time. I am afraid that other mass transit would be quite similar except it would cost more.

Your comparing a local trolly on Madison to a regional rail system? Are you for real?

Oh, I get it...you have never been outside of Shelby County in your life, right?

I use the rail system everyday in STL. Love it!!! Cheaper and cost effective. And by the way, I have never seen any crimes (such as muggings) on it.

I think people in the suburbs of Memphis do not want regional rail because it might bring some violent Memphis residents to their areas (or what they perceive as violent Memphis residents). If a regional rail system connected most major suburbs to FedEx, airport, etc. then yes it would be a success. Why drive to the airport and pay for parking when you can catch the rail line instead????

the only way a rail system would work would be in the local governments in all 3 states were on board, and there were no preconceived boundary issues.

Take a look at MARTA in Atlanta. There is a well known racist translation for their system. Follow the rails lines and where they end, then look at the expensive suburban growth in Atlanta. There are certain places that will never allow MARTA in.

I'm afraid any real effort to ever bring in a rail system here would face huge opposition from DeSoto county, Fayette county, Collierville, probably Germantown, and probably Tipton county. You'd get cooperation from Crittenden county, maybe, but it might be too cost prohibitive to go there. So basically you'd have a system that could parallel the I-40 corridor within the city limits, questionably into Arlington, and north to Millington, but would otherwise be confined to within the Memphis city limits. Hate to sound negative, as a regional light rail system many years ago may have kept us ahead of Nashville and on pace with Atlanta.

i wouldnt worry too much about other counties right now. seems like you want something more along the line of the Music City Star lines Nashville area has. I would do one or the other, not mixed.

I would love to have the rail and serriously doubt muggings would be much of a problem.

as for the travel time, i think it would be roughly the same and save you lots of gas money. some rail lines predicted for instalation are located seperate from the street and will travel at about the same speed suggested for other traffic. buss delays can be influenced by traffic. traffic would have less influence on a rail delay.

mapdude Wrote:Your comparing a local trolly on Madison to a regional rail system? Are you for real?

Oh, I get it...you have never been outside of Shelby County in your life, right?

I just pinched myself so I am pretty sure that I am for real.

Heck, I even have a 3rd grade education. I have even travelled quite a bit to other cities.

So any other ideas about me?