"Why Not Trolley Bus?"
A thoughtful question about transit from Kansas City with a Russian Accent: "Why Not Trolley Bus?"
The answer:Because it wouldn't really benefit Kansas City engineering firms and special interests who are going to cash in on the toy train. Silly goose.
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Can't expect these young hipsters to ride anything without steel wheels. Besides, there might be blacks on the trolley bus.
Exactly Tony. I still question how you can see through all this bullshit and still support Kander and the Rizzo family (Henry's patronage notwithstanding).
Trolly buses are no fun. We need to spend millions.
Because it doesn't foster development, which is how transit expenditures get mitigated.
Go to any fixed guideway transit project in the country and look at the businesses and residences on the line before and after. Fixed guideway transit has the highest return and success rate of any urban infrastructure project.
How about a submarine that will travel under the sity and the length of the sewer system.... oh sorry! There is no sewer system
Trolley Busses would be cheaper and therefore are not practical.
A fixed route may foster some development but only at the expense of other neighborhoods declining. With the huge costs involved the decline of other neighborhoods would greatly exceed any benefit to the are around a rail line. Of course if you own property along the line and can get the entire city to pay for it well that's a different story.
Trolley buses are considered fixed guideway transportation, at least by the Federal Government of this country. You can see that in Seattle's study I linked in the post it says: "continuation of federal fixed guideway grants is assumed in the analysis".
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