Comments on: Transit in North Carolina's Triangle; CR in Québec http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2008/11/17/weeks-beginning/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nathanael Nerode http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2008/11/17/weeks-beginning/#comment-37 Nathanael Nerode Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:41:47 +0000 http://thetransportpolitic.wordpress.com/?p=214#comment-37 Hilariously, the "STAC" was organized after the original rail plan lost political support (due to the necessary taxes among other things). In order to put a fig leaf over it, they got together a group of businessmen to form the STAC and propose different transit alternatives -- they were expected to propose something much smaller, probably with a lot more buses. Instead, it turned out the businessmen *really wanted* rail and they proposed a *BIGGER* plan than before. That, unsurprisingly, changed the political climate in Raleigh-Durham quite dramatically (as did the success of LYNX). Hilariously, the “STAC” was organized after the original rail plan lost political support (due to the necessary taxes among other things). In order to put a fig leaf over it, they got together a group of businessmen to form the STAC and propose different transit alternatives — they were expected to propose something much smaller, probably with a lot more buses.

Instead, it turned out the businessmen *really wanted* rail and they proposed a *BIGGER* plan than before.

That, unsurprisingly, changed the political climate in Raleigh-Durham quite dramatically (as did the success of LYNX).

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