You Walker supporters suck at math. $8 million is 1% of $800 million, not .01% and the bus money only serves one county instead of expanding travel to 75 miles to the west (and opens up rail travel to Madison from the south and evenutally the west). Oh, and the train saves a lot more than it would cost to build or maintain another lane on even a few miles of I-94.
But other than that, it's exactly the same thing...jeez, you people have nothing. The hypocrisy and self-centered thinking of you folks should be an automatic, over-the-top rope-style disqualification for any serious office.
You know what I meant. 1/100th of Milwaukee to Madison. <1/10th the cost of the downtown choo choo.
I'll state my point again, $8 mil to transport around 100k people is a reasonable expenditure on a cost per rider basis, and that transit can be provided at a reasonable cost to taxpayers.
Nearly $1 billion on two rail projects that will serve far fewer passegers is not reasonable.
When are you Doyle/Barrett supporters going to figure out government spending needs to be brought under control? How deep of a hole are you willing to put us in?
Of greater note, the price tag on Barrett/Bauman's downtown choo-choo is now at a cool $100 mil.
ReplyDeleteI think the $8 mil spent on 22 or so new vehicles for an existing, adequate form of mass transit strikes me as reasonable.
%.01 the cost of the half-quick train to Madison. <%.1 the price of the couple-mile-long train that will putt around downtown.
The busses will transport way more people than both trains combined, and can easily adapt to changing population/destination centers.
You Walker supporters suck at math. $8 million is 1% of $800 million, not .01% and the bus money only serves one county instead of expanding travel to 75 miles to the west (and opens up rail travel to Madison from the south and evenutally the west). Oh, and the train saves a lot more than it would cost to build or maintain another lane on even a few miles of I-94.
ReplyDeleteBut other than that, it's exactly the same thing...jeez, you people have nothing. The hypocrisy and self-centered thinking of you folks should be an automatic, over-the-top rope-style disqualification for any serious office.
You know what I meant. 1/100th of Milwaukee to Madison. <1/10th the cost of the downtown choo choo.
ReplyDeleteI'll state my point again, $8 mil to transport around 100k people is a reasonable expenditure on a cost per rider basis, and that transit can be provided at a reasonable cost to taxpayers.
Nearly $1 billion on two rail projects that will serve far fewer passegers is not reasonable.
When are you Doyle/Barrett supporters going to figure out government spending needs to be brought under control? How deep of a hole are you willing to put us in?