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Originally Posted by theWatusi
Been paying attention? The stimulus money is for "shovel ready" projects, not pie-in-the-sky ideas.
This is money well spent.
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I know that the stimulus is for shovel-ready projects. The point I am making is that as long as we limit our thinking on transit, our we'll never have shovel ready projects that involve expanding the structure of our transit system. Right now, our mindset is to simply maintain what we have as best as possible, because we don't believe we'll ever be able to make real improvements. The result of this is that we're never ready to take advantage of opportunities.
Not that I oppose the proposed changes. It's just that when I read this article, I was reminded of how much our approach and way of thinking about transit needs to change (and by "our" I mean average citizens and especially civic leaders, not necessarily people who post or read here).