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http://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/ne...rapid.html

If done well, this could pay big dividends. Would be nice to have this in place for the 2016 CUSA tournament.

Lipstick on a pig.

(06-08-2015 04:28 PM)hooverblazer Wrote: [ -> ]http://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/ne...rapid.html

If done well, this could pay big dividends. Would be nice to have this in place for the 2016 CUSA tournament.

Sounds good, but the devil is in the details. This is a good, but tiny step in the right direction.

(06-08-2015 04:53 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-08-2015 04:28 PM)hooverblazer Wrote: [ -> ]http://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/ne...rapid.html

If done well, this could pay big dividends. Would be nice to have this in place for the 2016 CUSA tournament.

Sounds good, but the devil is in the details. This is a good, but tiny step in the right direction.

If this is a tiny step, what would be a bigger step?

(06-08-2015 06:11 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-08-2015 04:53 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-08-2015 04:28 PM)hooverblazer Wrote: [ -> ]http://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/ne...rapid.html

If done well, this could pay big dividends. Would be nice to have this in place for the 2016 CUSA tournament.

Sounds good, but the devil is in the details. This is a good, but tiny step in the right direction.

If this is a tiny step, what would be a bigger step?

Monorail.

(06-08-2015 06:15 PM)Smaug Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-08-2015 06:11 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-08-2015 04:53 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-08-2015 04:28 PM)hooverblazer Wrote: [ -> ]http://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/ne...rapid.html

If done well, this could pay big dividends. Would be nice to have this in place for the 2016 CUSA tournament.

Sounds good, but the devil is in the details. This is a good, but tiny step in the right direction.

If this is a tiny step, what would be a bigger step?

Monorail.

Let me rephrase the question, what would be a realistic bigger step?

Monorail is realistic by the 2021 World Games...

Probably the most realistic and biggest step that could be taken is providing busses with dedicated lanes, with more frequent service that stops at fewer places.

For the downtown circular put 19th or 20th street on a road diet and provide a dedicated line in each direction with only a handful of stops. One down by the civic center, one around regions/wells fargo, then railroad park, followed by UAB, and then 5-points. Even that might be to many.

Here's a good article from slate about improving mass transit using busses.

We could start small:

(06-08-2015 06:32 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-08-2015 06:15 PM)Smaug Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-08-2015 06:11 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-08-2015 04:53 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-08-2015 04:28 PM)hooverblazer Wrote: [ -> ]http://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/ne...rapid.html

If done well, this could pay big dividends. Would be nice to have this in place for the 2016 CUSA tournament.

Sounds good, but the devil is in the details. This is a good, but tiny step in the right direction.

If this is a tiny step, what would be a bigger step?

Monorail.

Let me rephrase the question, what would be a realistic bigger step?

Like I said, the devil is in the details. One big thing that needs to happen is to link some of the more peripheral areas like Avondale, Forest Park, Crestwood, Homewood, etc. and in a more "DART-like" circulator instead of the standard routes that can take forever. Something like a trolley or street car route.

Then, we need some rapid transit lines from Hoover/Alabaster, Gardendale, Bessemer, East Lake, Leeds, etc so folks can have predictable commutes that are actually shorter than a car ride into town.

New Orleans is in the process of putting street cars back in on certain routes.

(06-08-2015 07:34 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-08-2015 06:32 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-08-2015 06:15 PM)Smaug Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-08-2015 06:11 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-08-2015 04:53 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote: [ -> ]Sounds good, but the devil is in the details. This is a good, but tiny step in the right direction.

If this is a tiny step, what would be a bigger step?

Monorail.

Let me rephrase the question, what would be a realistic bigger step?

Like I said, the devil is in the details. One big thing that needs to happen is to link some of the more peripheral areas like Avondale, Forest Park, Crestwood, Homewood, etc. and in a more "DART-like" circulator instead of the standard routes that can take forever. Something like a trolley or street car route.

Then, we need some rapid transit lines from Hoover/Alabaster, Gardendale, Bessemer, East Lake, Leeds, etc so folks can have predictable commutes that are actually shorter than a car ride into town.

Agree.

(06-08-2015 07:40 PM)BlazerPhil Wrote: [ -> ]New Orleans is in the process of putting street cars back in on certain routes.

When has New Orleans not had street cars?

(06-08-2015 09:21 PM)demiveeman Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-08-2015 07:40 PM)BlazerPhil Wrote: [ -> ]New Orleans is in the process of putting street cars back in on certain routes.

When has New Orleans not had street cars?

New Orleans has a few lines in operation now. That go from the CBD to the cemeteries, the Garden District line, and the riverfront.

But back in their heyday, streetcars were in every neighborhood.

New Orleans is reinstalling the line that connects the Bywater & eventually the ninth ward to the CBD. And if it goes as planned, Metarie and Gentilly neighborhoods could be readded to the circuit.