Stop the Trolley Effort Group forming
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You mean these are just big expensive buses on rail?
Stop the Street Car Madness!
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Admin @ January 27, 2010
Contact them today!
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Rick here in Charlotte is a tireless crusader for fiscal responsibility and he set us the following: To stop this trolley go to
Urban Circulator – FTA-2010-001-TPE at www.grants.gov
National Office: 1–800–877–8339
Call them today!
Thanks.
Admin @ January 27, 2010
When will we learn?
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If only we could print this ourselves!
The Observer being the Observer gives hims some time and space in a paper which they claim they do not have enough space for anything conservatives are interested in reading.
But read this mess and see what you think: Observer Rail Cheerleader Story
Admin @ January 19, 2010
Don’t Buy anything in Mecklenburg County
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Hey where is that tax money?
Those of us who know we can not afford this rail scheme welcome the new person who came from another system which is in sorry shape and hemorrhaging tax money even faster than we are as they have built and built and built with no concern about the costs.
So to get things started off right we are asking everyone in Mecklenburg County to put off any purchases you need and go to another surrounding county to buy. The taxes are lower and not one penny of your money will be going to the half cent sales tax which supports this waste of money called Charlotte Transit System.
Can you imagine the jolly Christmas season when the retailers contact the Charlotte Chamber and demand they stop supporting the rail scheme so they can get our business back. Can you imagine the fact they will have to actually stop hiding money in our general budget from projects not done all over our city and dumping them into the rail projects?
So Don’t buy anything in Mecklenburg County.
Admin @ November 16, 2009
Arisen from the grave and still so far from Halloween!
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The Street Car is BAAAAAAAAAK and even more scary than ever before.
With an infusion of a mere 4.5 million the City Council is moving ahead so they can keep the promise they made to the Black Political Caucus so they would help keep the Transit Tax. They voted for the mere 4.5 to help design the streetcars. Why not just buy a design that is already being made and save some money. When I go to buy a car I do not want to have a new one designed for me. I know that just adds to the cost.
So when they tear up the streets and keep traffic snarled for a couple of years and then wonder why businesses have closed and people are angry then they might wonder if buses could have been better and less intrusive of course a LOOOOOOOT cheaper.
Admin @ September 15, 2009
Ta Ta Trolley… Sorry So long Street Cars.
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And you were promised!!!! Remember Both Parties Promised!
The Mayor vetoed the funding for the Central Ave., Beatties Ford Road Street Cars.
Even after the promises made to the Black Political Caucus.
He did this to help the few remaining elected officials so they would not have to take the ire of citizens as he is leaving this term.
Oh and I am sorry I said good bye trolley. That is a rich persons plaything and will be treated like a golden cow along with the Light Rail. Meaning they will be here forever even though they take funding from the buses which is needed as they cut service and the like.
Hey Black Political Caucus we at Charlotte Light Rail offers you a free website to express your ideas on CATS. Just call me Larry 704.573.3363.
Admin @ August 25, 2009
The Rich People are who are riding the rail!
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Who cares if we can afford it! We want it!
Years ago I asked Ron Tober to get the demographics on just who would be and then later who was riding light rail.
He said the did not do that type of research.
Now the Observer puts out an analysis from CATs that shows the light rail rider has other options.
Meaning the ride the rail but will never ride the bus. So our costs of about 36 dollars each way to carry these rich people is working. They are leaving their cars at the free parking decks and taking the light rail. Keep in mind they are also doing this to go to the games and plays. Hey but that is what this is all about. Rich people getting out of their cars and into those over priced light rail rides. We could carry this for about four bucks each way but that would be on a bus and we already know they have other options.
So finally the truth is out and we now know why these outrageous millions were spent. Rich People we love you soooooo much, please feel free to enjoy our trains that make you feel better than riding those nasty buses that we have had to cut back on their schedules in the areas of town which needs them so we could afford to keep up your rides on the light rail.
Admin @ July 23, 2009
REAL not RAIL Transit for the future!
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Use today's technology!
On WBTV today they were all glassed eye and salivating over how many more people are riding the light rail and how the controversy must have been answered with this outstanding increase in ridership. In fact they say that during sport events the numbers increase by sometimes three times as much. And to prove the success they say the I485 parking deck is often closed due to the large number of cars parked there.
Great so we are now only looking at the numbers of riders as the success. I guess the distortions of the advertising campaign last year from those in support of the light rail have sold everyone on the same way of looking at the SUCCESS of our light rail.
We do not need to bother to look that it costs us in subsidised tax dollars around TWENTY SEVEN dollars each way plus the fare people pay on Light Rail. Nor that we could move these same people for only around FOUR dollars in tax subsidies plus the fare each way on buses. An we can overlook the fact Raleigh can move people on buses for about ONE DOLLAR AND SEVENTY FIVE cents each way in tax subsidies plus the fare with their more efficient transit operation. But of course they are not operating off of the windfall of the half cents sales tax as it was in the past, but becoming a real problem for cash cow status in this economy for our transit system, CATS.
And we can overlook the fact that the majority of the tags parked in the parking lot at I485 are South Carolina Tags as they pay taxes here. And hopefully they buy a few thousand each rider per day to help us offset these costs by paying the half cent sales tax and it is not being borne by the Mecklenburg County People more than it should.
But that is not what we are here to discuss. We want to eschew technology that is over a hundred years old and go with the future. We want to say that costs are important but apparently not that important when it comes to moving people.
Helicopters. YES HELICOPTERS.
Imagine the potential? No marring of the land, flexablilty of travel, and a myriad of other advantages.
Can you imagine the fuel savings for commuters, the cars that would be off the overcrowded roads and think of how our environment would benefit. Beautiful new helicopters flying through our beautiful and smog free skies?
Let’s do a Charlotte Observer on you:
Imagine you get up from your lake home in Hickory, North Carolina. You forgot to set the clock. It is 8AM. You go to your automated cleaning station which uses no water, chemicals or anything else. You go downstairs as you only have two rooms a bedroom and a residence room to keep your carbon foot print low. Your spouse (male or female or any gender change they bravely may have wished to change to or a person of a same sex relationship) greets you. If you are so inclined you have only two offspring who attend the local school which houses 10thousand students all in a high rise to again save the environment.
You tell this Person you are late and go out the door to your segway which takes you the two miles to the local heliport. You board with others wearing the same suits all from recycled plasic bottles but the suit feels like silk but looks like something a worm spit up.
As you fly over the terrain you see closed big empty box stores all along the overgrown rail lines. All those poor people who still live along those lines are desperate to sell but no one wants to be near these reminders of all the expense they once incurred.
So you finally land on top of your building at 8:30 am and wend your way down to the cubicle where you approve the 665.245 form all day long. Once in a while you get the opportunity to approve a 665.248 but those days are far between. Life is good!
And imagine not having to buy land or wait long at all as we build a few heliports around the area. No special orders just standard passengers helicopters is all we need. Then imagine using them during the day to ferry people to the Airport or what ever needs we might have during the day? Let’s not even talk about using them in an emergency to get people out of the area or people to the hospital in a big way. Then during the events you can just imagine the use. We can only look at the NASCAR success of helicopters to see how well it would would work with our sporting events.
Now many would be saying what would all of this costs, to which I would say not that much. Apparently that is all you have to do anymore for the media and they will quit asking questions.
So let’s get moving on Helicopters!!! TODAY and we can have them flying in Charlotte in just a couple of months all over the place.
Admin @ January 12, 2009
Rail Roaded By CATS/Center City
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Tax Payer Seeing Bill
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/408/story/417620.html
If you read the Observer story above today you will see that CATS is using the story that a downturn in the economy is the only reason we are in the position of having bus services cut and light rail services cut.
We told you last year that this whole house of cards would come down on them even if the economy were to keep going well. Just note how we asked that they take two years and show us how successful and cost wise this whole transit system would be.
When will we learn that all these people are surrounded with people who are there because they were put there to support us paying more and more of our taxes while they and their friends make money off of the developments and other activities which whirl around all this money.
Charlottelightrail @ December 16, 2008
Affordable Light Rail, Cats on budget and other Christmas wish Tales 2008
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OH! I just can not wait to see the surprise!
Anyone could see we were slowing down last year and yet our Elected Officials were still going at it like it was the old days when they could just Annex more and cover their wild spending
So now we are getting the real truth about our Transit Spending
More to come!
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/local/story/394843
Admin @ December 5, 2008