(11-07-2021, 12:30 PM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote:

(11-07-2021, 09:22 AM)wrong_box Wrote: ok so people are supposed to do what after getting off a train? Call a cab to get to your job? Ride a bike? C'mon Joe, that [BLEEP] aint gonna work.

perhaps you need to get out of Jacksonville in your lifetime to see how transit systems work.

well lets see here, I was born In Idaho, lived there until I was 20 when I joined the Navy, lived in Il. (very close to Chicago)  then to Charleston, SC, THEN I got transferred to Jacksonville, stayed there 17 years, moved back to Idaho for a short  time, then moved to Spartanburg, SC for a few years, then back to Jacksonville for a few years, now I'm in Pa and have been here over a decade... I have also driven nearly coast to coast at least 5 times (all my family still lives in Id.), passing through many major cities so, I think Ive been around enough to see other places that have  commuter systems, around this great country of ours. I would love to see a mass transit system that was viable and economical in this country that would work, however, there are too many challenges to make such a system work in this country. 

There are so many small towns that such a system wouldnt work in because of the number of people who live in them. Large cities maybe, but there are so many people in Urban settings far out from major cities that it just wouldnt work. It would take forever and a day to create enough rail systems, shuttles and bus systems for this to work.

How is the monorail system in Jax coming along?

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