Valley cities have to push hard for rail support in Congress

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• Leon Ceniceros posted at 5:11 pm on Tue, Mar 29, 2011.

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  "anti-spending climate"...........is Mesa Mayor Scott Smith unaware that America under the Obama...BORROW, TAX AND SPEND BUDGET.....has pushed the DEBIT to.....$17,000,000,000,000.00 = SEVENTEEN TRILLION (WITH A "T") DOLLARS.

  Mayor Scott Smith.....let me be the first to clue you in...........AMERICA IS BANKRUPT....we are printing money with nothing behind it......pieces of paper.

  No one............ask around....no one....is going down to Tucson from Phoenix except ...beer and soda pop distributors.
  SPENDING A COUPLE BILLION (with a "B") DOLLARS MAY BE.......CHUMP CHANGE...TO YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE A........MULTI-MILLIONAIRE.....BUT IT ISN'T TO THE REST OF US.

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• 091468mr posted at 8:14 pm on Tue, Mar 29, 2011.

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  Just another way to enrich the thieving mormon contractors in mesa, gilbert and the valley wide.

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• tededitedit posted at 9:02 pm on Tue, Mar 29, 2011.

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  It's great the high school kids were having a good time, but all in all, it's a very expensive limo. These rail projects should, first and foremost, reduce automobile passenger/miles at a more economical rate than other forms of mass transit. Does the light rail do this? No. Will the Tempe Mill Avenue trolley project? Absolutely not. The argument that these projects spur massive redevelopment is weak in my opinion. I think if government and business leaders sincerely applied the same level of effort promoting development without the rail project (at a fraction of the taxpayer cost) they would get similar results.

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• Cerulean posted at 9:24 pm on Tue, Mar 29, 2011.

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  The article said, “Weekday boardings are nearly 40,000 a day. . .” That must include more than just school children. It sounds to me like it is almost paying for its self. That seems like a good thing.

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• ubu122 posted at 9:40 pm on Tue, Mar 29, 2011.

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  Are these people out of thier minds? They have no clue what the long term holds for these rail systems. At the rate technology is advancing the auto industry is changing as we know it. There will soon be a car in mass production that everyone can afford. Then what happens to this precious light rail ridership? It will look like the buses running around with zero people on them.
  Besides that did they ever think that maybe the reason ridership is higher than expected is because of the agreement to allow those going to the ballpark and arena are riding for free. If that wasn't in effect would they have the increased ridership? NO!
  
  Has the light rail been paid off yet? If so, how much money in profit has been made? NONE! Pay it off then use the profits to do what you want. Our federal government needs to pay off its debts before funding an unproven unprofitible business venture.

  If it is going so great then light rail employees would not have been laid off!

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• Dale Whiting posted at 11:38 am on Wed, Mar 30, 2011.

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  Clearly none of the above has ever ridden the system. It ain't perfect. But nothing is.

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• Red-Feather posted at 8:27 pm on Thu, Mar 31, 2011.

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  Sorry folks, please do some research on the states that already have light rail. ITS A FAILURE in every city...its a money pit at the tax payers expense. Seattle finished their light rail and its so far in the hole its stupid . On top of that? No-one rides the darn thing. Who wants to take a 45 min trip by car and turn it into an 2 joke? Going from train to bus and back again. I am from Seattle and they are killing us with the taxes on this rail. Now they need more money because its going under...DUMB DUMB DUMB. You dont want it!

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• EmperorSmith posted at 8:04 pm on Sat, Apr 2, 2011.

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  It ain't perfect. But nothing is.

  You are learning Dale.

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