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RE: Informal Stadium Poll
(09-25-2015 11:15 AM)bladhmadh Wrote:  
(09-25-2015 08:47 AM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  
(09-25-2015 08:25 AM)bladhmadh Wrote:  
(09-25-2015 07:58 AM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  
(09-25-2015 03:48 AM)bladhmadh Wrote:  if done students with a valid uab id should be allowed to ride for free on game day.

The city needs to figure out how to make a downtown circulator free for everyone all the time, anyway.

Chattanooga does that. Only problem is that the buses always have homeless people escaping the heat in the summer and the cold n the winter. Charging a small fee keeps the homeless off the buses. I'd rather them sell transit passes help cover the cost of the drivers. You can always offer free rides during special events

Yeah, I hate the homeless too. Those non-people have no right to use any services that we do.

They have every right to buy a transit pass and use the trolleys. the simple fact is having four or five homeless guys smelling of cigarettes and BO asking other riders for money does not encourage people to use the trolley.

Then you put no solicitation policies in place and kick people off the bus who are breaking that policy.

One reason I've never ridden the DART is because I never have a quarter in my pocket. To get Birmingham riding something like that it needs to be as friction free as possible
09-25-2015 12:05 PM
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RE: Informal Stadium Poll
(09-25-2015 12:05 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  
(09-25-2015 11:15 AM)bladhmadh Wrote:  
(09-25-2015 08:47 AM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  
(09-25-2015 08:25 AM)bladhmadh Wrote:  
(09-25-2015 07:58 AM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  The city needs to figure out how to make a downtown circulator free for everyone all the time, anyway.

Chattanooga does that. Only problem is that the buses always have homeless people escaping the heat in the summer and the cold n the winter. Charging a small fee keeps the homeless off the buses. I'd rather them sell transit passes help cover the cost of the drivers. You can always offer free rides during special events

Yeah, I hate the homeless too. Those non-people have no right to use any services that we do.

They have every right to buy a transit pass and use the trolleys. the simple fact is having four or five homeless guys smelling of cigarettes and BO asking other riders for money does not encourage people to use the trolley.

Then you put no solicitation policies in place and kick people off the bus who are breaking that policy.

One reason I've never ridden the DART is because I never have a quarter in my pocket. To get Birmingham riding something like that it needs to be as friction free as possible

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09-25-2015 12:20 PM
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RE: Informal Stadium Poll
(09-25-2015 12:20 PM)price4UAB Wrote:  
(09-25-2015 12:05 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  
(09-25-2015 11:15 AM)bladhmadh Wrote:  
(09-25-2015 08:47 AM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  
(09-25-2015 08:25 AM)bladhmadh Wrote:  Chattanooga does that. Only problem is that the buses always have homeless people escaping the heat in the summer and the cold n the winter. Charging a small fee keeps the homeless off the buses. I'd rather them sell transit passes help cover the cost of the drivers. You can always offer free rides during special events

Yeah, I hate the homeless too. Those non-people have no right to use any services that we do.

They have every right to buy a transit pass and use the trolleys. the simple fact is having four or five homeless guys smelling of cigarettes and BO asking other riders for money does not encourage people to use the trolley.

Then you put no solicitation policies in place and kick people off the bus who are breaking that policy.

One reason I've never ridden the DART is because I never have a quarter in my pocket. To get Birmingham riding something like that it needs to be as friction free as possible

Accept BlazerBucks?

Right, because everyone in the Birmingham metro area has a BlazerBucks account.
09-25-2015 12:26 PM
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RE: Informal Stadium Poll
(09-25-2015 12:26 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  
(09-25-2015 12:20 PM)price4UAB Wrote:  
(09-25-2015 12:05 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  
(09-25-2015 11:15 AM)bladhmadh Wrote:  
(09-25-2015 08:47 AM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  Yeah, I hate the homeless too. Those non-people have no right to use any services that we do.

They have every right to buy a transit pass and use the trolleys. the simple fact is having four or five homeless guys smelling of cigarettes and BO asking other riders for money does not encourage people to use the trolley.

Then you put no solicitation policies in place and kick people off the bus who are breaking that policy.

One reason I've never ridden the DART is because I never have a quarter in my pocket. To get Birmingham riding something like that it needs to be as friction free as possible

Accept BlazerBucks?

Right, because everyone in the Birmingham metro area has a BlazerBucks account.

Dude. What is your problem? Do you live to do nothing but to critique everyone else's posts?

No. I was offering an idea to get STUDENTS to ride the Dart. Specifically because the whole mention of using the trolley was a solution to get students to a stadium built by the BJCC.
09-25-2015 12:46 PM
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RE: Informal Stadium Poll
(09-25-2015 12:46 PM)price4UAB Wrote:  
(09-25-2015 12:26 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  
(09-25-2015 12:20 PM)price4UAB Wrote:  
(09-25-2015 12:05 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  
(09-25-2015 11:15 AM)bladhmadh Wrote:  They have every right to buy a transit pass and use the trolleys. the simple fact is having four or five homeless guys smelling of cigarettes and BO asking other riders for money does not encourage people to use the trolley.

Then you put no solicitation policies in place and kick people off the bus who are breaking that policy.

One reason I've never ridden the DART is because I never have a quarter in my pocket. To get Birmingham riding something like that it needs to be as friction free as possible

Accept BlazerBucks?

Right, because everyone in the Birmingham metro area has a BlazerBucks account.

Dude. What is your problem? Do you live to do nothing but to critique everyone else's posts?

No. I was offering an idea to get STUDENTS to ride the Dart. Specifically because the whole mention of using the trolley was a solution to get students to a stadium built by the BJCC.

And my point is that a downtown circulator should be free for everyone, so that not just the students can get to the BJCC, and so that it's useful for more than just the 5 or 6 football games every year. We'd do a lot better if we had a system that folks could ride from UAB to downtown every day of the year.
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RE: Informal Stadium Poll
option 2 or option 3 (a stadium near regions) I just think if they build one at bjcc and legion is still standing, they will never agree to one on campus (wont go for 3 stadiums in bham). they will say use bjcc and if need something bigger use legion.
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RE: Informal Stadium Poll
(09-25-2015 02:17 PM)interested Wrote:  option 2 or option 3 (a stadium near regions) I just think if they build one at bjcc and legion is still standing, they will never agree to one on campus (wont go for 3 stadiums in bham). they will say use bjcc and if need something bigger use legion.

There is no "IF" regarding Legion Field as long as it is the only stadium of that size in the metro area. Only an MPF as presently planned can assure its demise.
09-25-2015 02:22 PM
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RE: Informal Stadium Poll
Legion will be torn down if there is another field at the BJCC.
09-25-2015 03:39 PM
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(09-25-2015 03:39 PM)the_blazerman Wrote:  Legion will be torn down if there is another field at the BJCC.

I don't believe anything but a major league MPF will terminate Legion Field. The city will have to decide, not you or I, but I don't think a 40,000 seat BJCC connected open air stadium will replace it. Two similar feature stadiums are going to be expensive luxuries the city must face financially if built.

I am presuming that the city wishes to keep the B'ham Bowl and NCBU football Classics into the future. If it decides to dump them elsewhere, then Legion Field may indeed be replaced. Atlanta, for one, has welcomed events B'ham could not attract or did not keep.
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RE: Informal Stadium Poll
(09-25-2015 02:22 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  Only an MPF as presently planned can assure its demise.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Bearamandias, Coach of Coaches:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".
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(09-25-2015 06:51 PM)58-56 Wrote:  
(09-25-2015 02:22 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  Only an MPF as presently planned can assure its demise.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Bearamandias, Coach of Coaches:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".

Nice play on Ozimandius (sp?) but just because you don't like what I say does not make me wrong. I will only be proven wrong if that "mini Legion Field" is built near the BJCC and Legion Field is demolished. Fortunately, UAB cannot be moved to Atlanta, but that is not necessarily true of bowl games and classics.
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RE: Informal Stadium Poll
Option #1 will do just fine.
09-29-2015 09:31 PM
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RE: Informal Stadium Poll
In reference to the posts about transit options to and from the stadium should Uptown become UAB's new home. IIRC, the city is preparing to feature a BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) line that runs through the Uptown District in the near future. I would like to think that "Blazer Express" might be a viable option, too, but Fess might stonewall that like he tried to do with Wilder's last fight in Birmingham.
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Sure wish the city could build the stadium downtown closer to the Midtown area, and the convention center next to Uptown. That is, if the OCS is completely off the table now.
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