Comments on: Supervisor Chiu Urges MTC to Invest in Transit Over Freeway Expansion

By: royargothox

royargothox — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:53:19 +0000

Spectacularly I was surfing the internet today and I totally freaked out. I literally found my ex-girlfriend pictures on the internet. I have no idea when she did this but my ex-girlfriend was making revealed with some other teen. Does anyone be struck by any info on this ex-girlfriend site?

By: David "Buster" Fitzpatrick

David "Buster" Fitzpatrick — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:39:33 +0000

It dismays me to hear that many local governments as well as the state are claiming that they’re trying to pay off deficits when it’s possible that what they’re really doing is giving tax breaks to the rich and super rich, lining the pockets of the “governator”& pro-highway legeslators and increasing highway funding at the expense of the transit industry at a time when their services are increasingly in demand. I fear that if the this terrible trend continues we could wind up without any viable public transit and passenger train services in 5-10 years! We need a major shift away from funding “seatbeltways” (freeways) to passenger railways and urban rail transit.

By: Gillian Gillett

Gillian Gillett — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:04:43 +0000

Sadly, MTC is creating HOT lanes by widening the freeways in some places where there isn’t an HOV lane to convert to HOT (101, for instance), rather than re-purposing existing lanes to HOT. This will cause more asthma in San Francisco, where we don’t have space for or interest in widening roadways. See http://www.mtc.ca.gov/planning/hov/Res3868_Att_B-HOT_Network_Principles.pdf

By: gs

gs — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:24:43 +0000

being the “best” of awful, doesn’t make you good.

By: taomom

taomom — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:49:50 +0000

Steve,

Five years from now it is likely you won’t own a car. In any event, you’ll be clocking less than half the miles on the freeway by private car that you currently do now. Very shortly we are going to be extremely grateful for every inch of alternative transportation infrastructure that we have cobbled together. Ten years from now we are going to wonder why we spent so much of our money on vast stretches of concrete we can’t afford to use or maintain. The end of the internal combustion engine has arrived, even if the smoke hasn’t cleared yet.

By: anonymouse

anonymouse — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:37:39 +0000

Steve: if the rapid transit network were as extensive as even the freeway network, I’m sure we’d see a lot more transit ridership.

By: Steve Schindler

Steve Schindler — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:17:32 +0000

If freeways are so bad, why do they carry more passengers than any other form of transportation?

By: John Murphy

John Murphy — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:26:39 +0000

In response, Randy Rentschler, a spokesperson for the MTC, called the RTP “the most transit-friendly plan of any metro area in the entire country.”

Caltrain is “the most bike-friendly commute train in the country”. This did not stop us from demanding it be even better. And we got the improvements, I almost want to say we got “concessions”. Improved service should not be something that management of a transit agency “concedes”.

Just because you are the best, does not mean you cannot be better.

By: Ben K

Ben K — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:10:38 +0000

What is the best/most effective way we can take action locally to support Supervisor Chiu’s resolution?

By: Peter Smith

Peter Smith — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:54:25 +0000

How about the supes lead the charge on the highway revolt of the 00′s, and stop the Doyle Drive Highway expansion?

Also, I’d like to see a deemphasis on ‘the environment’ (polar bears, save the whales, carbon offsets, carbon copies, carbon fibers, and whatever else), and more focus on having a decent, safe place to live — maybe even a nice place to live.

‘Attrition of cars, or attrition of the city.’ –JJ

By: mikesonn

mikesonn — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:33:30 +0000

Prop 1B in ’06 did make mention of highway de-congestion through expansion, but ALSO through improving public transit. I fail to see the spokesperson’s argument holding any water.