Why should you pay for something that you don't use? Well, lets see, you pay for Police, Fire, Schools, Parks, etc. I bet you love the Police when they pull you over for speeding, how about the fire department that you need to yield to, such an inconvenience, you have no kids in school, and you hate the noisy family friendly park......yet your paying for all of it! Transit is a public service, Like Police and Fire, it provides a service to the community in which you live in, and is not out to turn a profit. Its easy for you to say "Cut it". But you know, that sales clerk at Nordstrom that sold you that suit, that server at your favorite lunch spot that delivered your food, how about the IT support guy at your work, they could have all taken the bus. Why? Because on low retail/server salaries, they can not afford the LUXURIES of an automobile. $90/month is better for them, or is more affordable. Some people do not like paying for outrageous parking, or dealing with the current traffic situation. "Cut it" means some of them will not be able to serve you, or show up for work, only making our struggling economy worse. Just because the cost of riding the bus doesn't line up with your car payment, doesn't mean one isn't being "fair". Transit touches everyone in some fashion, be it the clerks at your favorite shops, the gas station attendant, or the fact that my bus kept 100 SOVs off the road and out of your way, don't think because your not using it, that it doesn't effect your quality of life.
Monday, July 18, 2011
*Yawn* and now Portland Transport comments on the new bike and rides
Yippee.
TriMet opens new bike-n-rides | Portland Transport
But there is a good question asked from the post: Of course, the question that's worth asking: Why do bikers get to pay (even though its a tiny amount), but auto parking remains free along the line? Could it be that TriMet thinks the bike-riding crowd is less likely to abandon public transit (either riding bikes the whole way, or switching to cars) if presented with a fee?
TriMet opens new bike-n-rides | Portland Transport
But there is a good question asked from the post: Of course, the question that's worth asking: Why do bikers get to pay (even though its a tiny amount), but auto parking remains free along the line? Could it be that TriMet thinks the bike-riding crowd is less likely to abandon public transit (either riding bikes the whole way, or switching to cars) if presented with a fee?
Oh what excitement!
It seems like every blog i follow is posting something or other about this.
Sigh.
So here you have it: TriMet's largest Bike & Ride opens in Beaverton | Bike Portland
Sigh.
So here you have it: TriMet's largest Bike & Ride opens in Beaverton | Bike Portland
BEAVERTON BIKE AND RIDE CEREMONY
http://rantingsofatrimetbusdriver.blogspot.com/2011/07/beaverton-bike-and-ride-ceremony.html
So basically the whole thing was them patting themselves on the back for wasting so much money. It truly was comical. True, many bikers lock their bikes at that TC, especially during the summer, but the problem with the bike and rides is that you have to pay $20 up front for the card in the first place, so you have to plan ahead to actually use the thing, then it actually does cost a tiny bit of money to use it. If I actually ended up in a position where i was going through that TC and had the option of locking my bike there or keeping it with me, I would chose to keep my bike with me, just because it does give you more security than anything.
This video Jason got is better than the one i got, so i don't think i will bother posting mine.
Oh, and guess what TriMet just posted as a news release?
TriMet's largest Bike & Ride facility opens today
Just icing on the cake, ain't it?
So basically the whole thing was them patting themselves on the back for wasting so much money. It truly was comical. True, many bikers lock their bikes at that TC, especially during the summer, but the problem with the bike and rides is that you have to pay $20 up front for the card in the first place, so you have to plan ahead to actually use the thing, then it actually does cost a tiny bit of money to use it. If I actually ended up in a position where i was going through that TC and had the option of locking my bike there or keeping it with me, I would chose to keep my bike with me, just because it does give you more security than anything.
This video Jason got is better than the one i got, so i don't think i will bother posting mine.
Oh, and guess what TriMet just posted as a news release?
TriMet's largest Bike & Ride facility opens today
Just icing on the cake, ain't it?
The 'News' of the Day: TriMet opens Gresham, Beaverton Bike and Rides
Of course, Oregon’s largest transit agency can only hope the two new bike-and-rides are used more than the lonely cage at the Sunset Transit Center.
The $275,000 bike-and-ride at the chockablock Sunset Transit Center in Beaverton opened a year ago. As I stated in a column a few months ago, “it's one of those taxpayer-funded bike projects that makes taxpayer-funded bike projects look bad.”
TriMet opens Gresham, Beaverton bike-and-rides, hopes facilities used more than first | Joe Rose
The $275,000 bike-and-ride at the chockablock Sunset Transit Center in Beaverton opened a year ago. As I stated in a column a few months ago, “it's one of those taxpayer-funded bike projects that makes taxpayer-funded bike projects look bad.”
TriMet opens Gresham, Beaverton bike-and-rides, hopes facilities used more than first | Joe Rose
The Amazing Dissolving Nation
It's conceivable to me that Barack Obama may be the last president - for a while. He was a decent fellow but, in the end, ineffectual, and of course he got no help from the legislative branch, including especially colleagues in his own party, a most remarkable class of maundering chickenshits and grifters. Our money problems will not go away and after a while this land will not be governable by familiar means. In case you haven't noticed, the rule of law is already AWOL in many sectors of our national life, most particularly money matters, but before long on every street-corner, every highway strip, plus every GMO cornfield, and brownfield. The two parties are unreformable and the Tea Party is the stooge of one of the two parties, and there is no other party of earnest, decisive, and sane individuals anywhere near the horizon. So some kind of convulsion is in the cards and it will be the unfortunate duty of some dutiful officer to step in and set an agenda based on something other than bluster, fakery, and pocket pool.
James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler
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