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Originally Posted by JAM
sorry to disappoint, i have no idea who wrote the study, its just common sense. its happening as we speak. we have bills going forward in the US Congress on this. It will occur. People are not going to give up their cars. now, we can do this, or we can only allow rich people to have cars. the rest of us will get packed into trains crammed with 200 people LOL. maybe I'll get a job as a pusher!
Bottom line, this prop A is a bunch of money, and I've lost faith in our city council. don't trust them with the money, and many people who I know dont either, regardless of political affiliation. anyway that is a topic for another thread.
if we really want to expand public transit, then I say make the BRT better. It sucks, but could be so much better. for far less money.
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City council wouldn't be in charge of the money. It would be a non-political committee independent of council and cap metro.
BRT was a part of an actual study that cap metro was doing very publicly over the last 2 years. The reasons LRT was picked is because BRT has a capacity cap that would make it only useful for a few years when it opened. LRT has a much higher capacity and with the downtown tunnel, has room for future expansion of train length to meet Austin's needs in the decades to come.
Also, nothing about public infrastructure is "common sense." It's complicated and has so many different layers compounded one onto the other. If anyone thinks it's all "common sense" then it's a good indication of they don't know what they are talking about.