QUOTE(wrabbit @ Mar 9 2008, 10:30 PM) 
Well, besides being tax subsidized, many are coming across with this, "Oh, it's so fun to ride the train!" and,
"The train is so much easier!" It makes me sick. What are they selling? They sound like they are doing a promotion. There's no need to defend the train, because it will be used by some and not by others, regardless of what is said. I just see it as another way to tax me, so others can have it easier. Yes, we are definitely in a socialist run country. They take our money and give us what they think we should have.
It's all about Big Brother, no doubt about it.
If one does take the train they have to park their cars someplace, and what do you want to bet that won't be free very long? Too soon they will figure they have the public conditioned to ride the train and will be charging parking fees in those parking lots everybody is using now, when they go jump on the train.
Also, how long do people think those cheap fares will stay cheap? They will go up, as soon as it looks like enough people are riding the train and are depending on it to get to work. Like sheep, riders will pay the prices as long as it looks like they are saving the environment. Wouldn't car pooling be just as effective?
And, keep in mind that low income citizens get to ride FREE. It's THAT nice? They could take an entire day and just ride around, at the tax payers expense. The homeless are already using the light rail to sleep in....does that tell anybody anything?
Don't get me wrong, there is a need to clean up the air and some people do need Light Rail, but to think it's all sugar and spice is very immature. And why must it go everywhere? Good Grief! Every single thing that the government has produced for our improved living standards or easier cheaper transportation has, over time, been more costly and not as convenient has it had been pitched in the beginning. Their current plan is to evenly disperse the poor and light rail is one of the things they are doing towards that goal. After all, when the low income homes get built here, the inhabitants will need a way to get around. This is a plan to further mix the poor with the middle class, thereby taking them from being mostly downtown, to spread over a larger area, as much as possible. But they aren't going to tell the public that...Oh no, it's all about saving the environment, don't you know?
Like I said before, if the government truly wanted to decrease the amount of traffic on the roads, and save our air, they'd give us an incentive to move closer to our jobs, in way of a tax break on our property tax. This Light Rail thing looks a lot like developing jobs and the contactors making big bucks....not really providing the public with cheaper and cleaner transportation, because of a concern over the air quality. Remember, the United States was the only country that did not come to the table at the environmental summit. Our country instead insisted that we had to continue using as much oil and driving our vehicles as much as we have been. So the way I see it, our country isn't walking the talk, as usual. They are instead selling us a bill of goods, which over time, will be a lost cause for the environment.
They want to have train rails all over Folsom....and running up into El Dorado Hills and Placerville. The love affair we have with our cars won't be cast aside with light rail going all over or further out, it will be lessened by us having an incentive to not drive so much. My wife and I could decide to go other places to buy goods and for entertainment, but why should we leave Folsom when we have it all right here? We hardly ever drive out of Folsom and feel the time and effort, not to mention the price of gas, just isn't worth it.
Sure, maybe some people ride the train because "it's fun!", but will they over time, when the glitter has worn off, when the fares go up, when it's so hot they feel sick when riding it and they have to pay to park their cars? Humans being what they are, have tended to be Gun Oh with things that are new, but tire of them when they are not trendy any more and too easily go back to their old habits.
Bottom line, the government is doing this so it will, like other projects, be a joke. Just my opinion.
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"The train is so much easier!" It makes me sick. What are they selling? They sound like they are doing a promotion. There's no need to defend the train, because it will be used by some and not by others, regardless of what is said. I just see it as another way to tax me, so others can have it easier. Yes, we are definitely in a socialist run country. They take our money and give us what they think we should have.
It's all about Big Brother, no doubt about it.
If one does take the train they have to park their cars someplace, and what do you want to bet that won't be free very long? Too soon they will figure they have the public conditioned to ride the train and will be charging parking fees in those parking lots everybody is using now, when they go jump on the train.
Also, how long do people think those cheap fares will stay cheap? They will go up, as soon as it looks like enough people are riding the train and are depending on it to get to work. Like sheep, riders will pay the prices as long as it looks like they are saving the environment. Wouldn't car pooling be just as effective?
And, keep in mind that low income citizens get to ride FREE. It's THAT nice? They could take an entire day and just ride around, at the tax payers expense. The homeless are already using the light rail to sleep in....does that tell anybody anything?
Don't get me wrong, there is a need to clean up the air and some people do need Light Rail, but to think it's all sugar and spice is very immature. And why must it go everywhere? Good Grief! Every single thing that the government has produced for our improved living standards or easier cheaper transportation has, over time, been more costly and not as convenient has it had been pitched in the beginning. Their current plan is to evenly disperse the poor and light rail is one of the things they are doing towards that goal. After all, when the low income homes get built here, the inhabitants will need a way to get around. This is a plan to further mix the poor with the middle class, thereby taking them from being mostly downtown, to spread over a larger area, as much as possible. But they aren't going to tell the public that...Oh no, it's all about saving the environment, don't you know?
Like I said before, if the government truly wanted to decrease the amount of traffic on the roads, and save our air, they'd give us an incentive to move closer to our jobs, in way of a tax break on our property tax. This Light Rail thing looks a lot like developing jobs and the contactors making big bucks....not really providing the public with cheaper and cleaner transportation, because of a concern over the air quality. Remember, the United States was the only country that did not come to the table at the environmental summit. Our country instead insisted that we had to continue using as much oil and driving our vehicles as much as we have been. So the way I see it, our country isn't walking the talk, as usual. They are instead selling us a bill of goods, which over time, will be a lost cause for the environment.
They want to have train rails all over Folsom....and running up into El Dorado Hills and Placerville. The love affair we have with our cars won't be cast aside with light rail going all over or further out, it will be lessened by us having an incentive to not drive so much. My wife and I could decide to go other places to buy goods and for entertainment, but why should we leave Folsom when we have it all right here? We hardly ever drive out of Folsom and feel the time and effort, not to mention the price of gas, just isn't worth it.
Sure, maybe some people ride the train because "it's fun!", but will they over time, when the glitter has worn off, when the fares go up, when it's so hot they feel sick when riding it and they have to pay to park their cars? Humans being what they are, have tended to be Gun Oh with things that are new, but tire of them when they are not trendy any more and too easily go back to their old habits.
Bottom line, the government is doing this so it will, like other projects, be a joke. Just my opinion.
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Dude, it's a train.... not a conspiracy theory.... I think you need to climb back down here with the rest of us.
