Comments on: Maryland Governor Supports Light Rail for Red and Purple Lines http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/08/05/maryland-governor-supports-light-rail-for-red-and-purple-lines/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:43:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mad Park http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/08/05/maryland-governor-supports-light-rail-for-red-and-purple-lines/#comment-2662 Mad Park Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:38:12 +0000 http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/?p=3191#comment-2662 @6 - Sean - Yes, thanks to the Bushies and their anti-transit forebears. They all seem to forget that the cheapskate always pays the most. @1 A single track tunnel? Do it right from the beginning! The cost of double tracking later will be astronomical. @6 – Sean – Yes, thanks to the Bushies and their anti-transit forebears. They all seem to forget that the cheapskate always pays the most.
@1 A single track tunnel? Do it right from the beginning! The cost of double tracking later will be astronomical.

]]> By: Sean http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/08/05/maryland-governor-supports-light-rail-for-red-and-purple-lines/#comment-2650 Sean Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:14:31 +0000 http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/?p=3191#comment-2650 It seems to be pretty obvious that the federal cost effectiveness guidelines for transit projects need to be completely re-written. They basically mandate cheap and subpar transit systems in order to receive federal funding. It seems to be pretty obvious that the federal cost effectiveness guidelines for transit projects need to be completely re-written. They basically mandate cheap and subpar transit systems in order to receive federal funding.

]]> By: Yonah Freemark http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/08/05/maryland-governor-supports-light-rail-for-red-and-purple-lines/#comment-2647 Yonah Freemark Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:55:36 +0000 http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/?p=3191#comment-2647 DK - Thanks for your point; I made a mistake in pressing publish as soon as I did, and deleted it a second after, because I wasn't entirely sure about what I had written (and, in fact, I was wrong)-- nonetheless, I should have explained myself because I know it showed up in some RSS readers! So, forgive me, and I'll plan on providing a more substantiated rebuttal to Mr. Glaeser's piece tomorrow. DK -
Thanks for your point; I made a mistake in pressing publish as soon as I did, and deleted it a second after, because I wasn’t entirely sure about what I had written (and, in fact, I was wrong)– nonetheless, I should have explained myself because I know it showed up in some RSS readers! So, forgive me, and I’ll plan on providing a more substantiated rebuttal to Mr. Glaeser’s piece tomorrow.

]]> By: Alon Levy http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/08/05/maryland-governor-supports-light-rail-for-red-and-purple-lines/#comment-2629 Alon Levy Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:10:07 +0000 http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/?p=3191#comment-2629 DK, sometimes bloggers publish posts before they intend to. It's common to put posts in the queue to be published at a set time later - for example, this is what happened with my regional rail piece. I haven't seen the post, but my reaction to Glaeser's piece is that he does his best to avoid using data from real-world HSR lines; his projection of 3 million annual riders between Houston and Dallas is essentially made up, as is his assumption that HSR has a one and a half hour time advantage over air in terms of security, check-in, and getting to the airport. DK, sometimes bloggers publish posts before they intend to. It’s common to put posts in the queue to be published at a set time later – for example, this is what happened with my regional rail piece.

I haven’t seen the post, but my reaction to Glaeser’s piece is that he does his best to avoid using data from real-world HSR lines; his projection of 3 million annual riders between Houston and Dallas is essentially made up, as is his assumption that HSR has a one and a half hour time advantage over air in terms of security, check-in, and getting to the airport.

]]> By: jon http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/08/05/maryland-governor-supports-light-rail-for-red-and-purple-lines/#comment-2627 jon Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:01:49 +0000 http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/?p=3191#comment-2627 its ridiculous that in baltimore each line is built as its own individual line, first it was the metro rail line (green), then the north-south light rail line and now the red line, why they cant design a system that shares portions of the tracks/route with the existing lines is beyond me. i understand this light rail line will not connect into the north-south line and obviously cant connect into the metro rail line. baltimore, if it built a decent transit system, could be one of the great urban lifestyle cities in the US, it has the underlying bones of a great urban city. instead their transit system is dysfunctional in design and operation. its ridiculous that in baltimore each line is built as its own individual line, first it was the metro rail line (green), then the north-south light rail line and now the red line, why they cant design a system that shares portions of the tracks/route with the existing lines is beyond me. i understand this light rail line will not connect into the north-south line and obviously cant connect into the metro rail line. baltimore, if it built a decent transit system, could be one of the great urban lifestyle cities in the US, it has the underlying bones of a great urban city. instead their transit system is dysfunctional in design and operation.

]]> By: DK http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/08/05/maryland-governor-supports-light-rail-for-red-and-purple-lines/#comment-2618 DK Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:45:46 +0000 http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/?p=3191#comment-2618 Did you remove the post about Edward Glaeser’s article because you misread it, and jumped on him for it? When I clicked the link, I got a notification that it was not found. Deleting it won’t help your case, and I think you should still comment on it, and explain your error. Similar to how LeBron James trying to not let the video of him getting dunked on was available from other sources, the internet holds a record of everything, and I think it’d be best if you say what your error was, and then comment on Glaeser’s conclusion. Did you remove the post about Edward Glaeser’s article because you misread it, and jumped on him for it? When I clicked the link, I got a notification that it was not found. Deleting it won’t help your case, and I think you should still comment on it, and explain your error.

Similar to how LeBron James trying to not let the video of him getting dunked on was available from other sources, the internet holds a record of everything, and I think it’d be best if you say what your error was, and then comment on Glaeser’s conclusion.

]]> By: jfruh http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/08/05/maryland-governor-supports-light-rail-for-red-and-purple-lines/#comment-2592 jfruh Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:20:38 +0000 http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/?p=3191#comment-2592 The proposed single-track tunnel section on the Red Line is <em>not</em> downtown; it's underneath Crooks Lane, a narrow street on the very western edge of Baltimore that runs between Edmonson Ave. and I-70. Any single-track tunnel is going to be painfully dumb, but it's less so in this peripheral of the line. Meanwhile, O'Malley seems to have given into the Canton complainers a bit; the Canton section of the line in proposal get about a third of a mile more tunnel than the original 4C alignment that had been floated. The proposed single-track tunnel section on the Red Line is not downtown; it’s underneath Crooks Lane, a narrow street on the very western edge of Baltimore that runs between Edmonson Ave. and I-70. Any single-track tunnel is going to be painfully dumb, but it’s less so in this peripheral of the line.

Meanwhile, O’Malley seems to have given into the Canton complainers a bit; the Canton section of the line in proposal get about a third of a mile more tunnel than the original 4C alignment that had been floated.

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