yep. "partially underground" were doing big things

http://www.ridetta.org/Regional_Rail/Overview/projectOverview.html

12/9/2005 3:48:46 AM

This will eventually be just like the MARTA in Atlanta. You know, Moving Black Residents Through Atlanta. Only poor and minorities will use it. But hey, at least we can say we got it.

12/9/2005 8:12:05 AM

Wouldn't that be the MBRTA?

What about Moving African-American Residents Through Atlanta? That would at least be the politically correct way to make a racist joke, right?

12/9/2005 8:30:46 AM

In most places Mass Transit beats the living hell out of driving..

12/9/2005 8:34:24 AM

moving africans rapidly through atlanta


even mootduff knows this, idiots

12/9/2005 8:37:59 AM

It is called MARTA.

Moving Africans Rapidly Though Atlanta

12/9/2005 8:38:49 AM

i rode on the marta when i flew in yesterday from the airport to my place off of 14th street. there weren't that many blacks on there after you got north of the i-20 corridor, there were a lot of mexican folks on there though

i also heard that they were going to implement a streetcar system there, kinda like in SF, and have it go all the way up and down peachtree. ITS GONNA BE A MESS IF THEY DO THAT

12/9/2005 9:14:41 AM

i vote for

MARTA - Moving Africans Rapidly To Africa

12/9/2005 9:17:37 AM

if it only serves minorities im okay with that...

at least it keeps the uninsured drivers off the road.

12/9/2005 9:47:02 AM

Gas will hit $4 a gallon and all of a sudden white people will discover the TTA line

12/9/2005 10:03:27 AM

i disagree with the idea of it being minorities who make the majority of the ridership

12/9/2005 10:07:48 AM

and when the magical people mover finally comes to state in :cough: approximately near the end of time...
it'll be an even cooler project

can't wait to fly into rdu and not have to call and get a friend to pick me up. like i'd actually pay 12 dollars a day to park there...hell no

12/9/2005 10:37:34 AM

CAT and DATA are crying.

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"Gas will hit $4 a gallon and all of a sudden white people will discover the TTA line"

Not likely. I'd rather pay $5 a day to get to work and be home an hour earlier than pay a dollar a day to ride the bus.

12/9/2005 10:53:34 AM

looks like the route will be everywhere i need to go from home to work and back again. im curious what the fares will be.

12/9/2005 10:58:58 AM

but the bus is free with your student id

12/9/2005 10:59:03 AM

^ yes it is, and this guy is happily in possession of a student ID that doesn't expire till 2009.

12/9/2005 1:04:39 PM

hahahha january 2009 here as well

12/9/2005 1:07:48 PM

That's awesome were moving torward a modern city in that aspect, and terrible at the same time. We'll be losing some of the ways of life of a southern city, and adapting more the way of a modern uncultured hellhole.

Oh, well that train was bound here.

12/9/2005 1:17:03 PM

great, we link Durham to Cary and Raleigh and see what that brings into the area

12/9/2005 1:38:02 PM

modern uncultured hell hole?

What exactly are you comparing Raleigh to?

12/9/2005 1:39:47 PM

^^Who exactly are you afraid of coming here, and what is stopping them from coming now?

[Edited on December 9, 2005 at 1:40 PM. Reason : ^]

12/9/2005 1:40:12 PM

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"Who exactly are you afraid of coming here"

The greater durham area

12/9/2005 1:43:09 PM

oh, so its racism hidden in heritage eh?

12/9/2005 1:45:46 PM

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"We'll be losing some of the ways of life of a southern city, and adapting more the way of a modern uncultured hellhole. "

You are a fucking idiot. Raleigh isn't a small southern town.

12/9/2005 2:09:43 PM

well considering Durham is one of the most crime ridden shitholes in NC, anything that increases our interaction with them is a negative in my book

12/9/2005 2:28:54 PM

i heard they invented this thing called a car. It allows people to move very fast.

its going to fuck us over.

12/9/2005 2:46:41 PM

It already has

Think about how it fucked up or cities.

12/9/2005 2:50:06 PM

I hardly think sitting in traffic jams can be called a "way of life of a southern city."

12/9/2005 2:57:30 PM

Actually, light rail would be considered more "going back to the old ways"

12/9/2005 3:04:09 PM

If the train has a stop on or very near campus, I could see a lot of State students using it. I would use it if it were here, now. When I went to Washington DC once, we used the trains to get around there, and it was a fairly pleasant experience.

12/9/2005 3:05:04 PM

IIRC, there will be a stop on campus along the line that runs through the middle of old campus. It is going to connect to a shuttle or other type of transport (another light rail?) that connects to Centennial.

12/9/2005 3:11:18 PM

its supposed to be a light rail/monrorail...all plans of centennial have a right of way for a light rail/monorail to be built running from the library, meeting the TTA light rail, passing between talley and reynolds, then heading over western down to centennial

if that is built i will come back to state to take classes just to ride it...its like disney

[Edited on December 9, 2005 at 3:19 PM. Reason : .]

12/9/2005 3:19:29 PM

All they need is the character breakfast in the Atrium with Mickey and friends.

12/9/2005 3:21:54 PM

This train has the potential to be very, very good or very, very bad. When I was in HK last, I loved riding the train. I would very much like to see this part of my daily commute.

12/9/2005 3:24:04 PM

Durhams Attempt to Transport Africans

12/9/2005 3:27:56 PM

I'm excited about getting to class easier. I will agree there's nothing like a good train ride.

12/9/2005 3:36:03 PM

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"Actually, light rail would be considered more "going back to the old ways""

Exactly. AFAIK, there was a light rail/trolley in raleigh in the 20s(?) I think it went down hillsborough street.

12/10/2005 2:54:37 AM

Hillsbourough, fayettevill, and glenwood. i know there were more, but i'm not sure of the exact routes.

5 points, cameron park and the "old neighborhoods" are trolley car suburbs.

[Edited on December 10, 2005 at 3:02 AM. Reason : turn of the 1900s-late 40's?]

[Edited on December 10, 2005 at 3:08 AM. Reason : the glenwood one ran down to Bloomsburry Park, which was just before the country club]

12/10/2005 3:02:17 AM

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"All they need is the character breakfast in the Atrium with Mickey and friends."

I'll run that by my managers today and see if they agree.

12/10/2005 9:05:55 AM

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"If the train has a stop on or very near campus, I could see a lot of State students using it. "

I'm not so sure about that. The buses already run through NCSU. Those are free for students, but students hardly ever ride them.

12/10/2005 9:13:50 AM

light rail >>> buses, if it takes you where you want to go

12/10/2005 9:26:22 AM

Quote :

"Exactly. AFAIK, there was a light rail/trolley in raleigh in the 20s(?) I think it went down hillsborough street."

12/10/2005 11:27:20 AM

bump

6/14/2010 7:53:33 PM

epic four-and-a-half year bump

6/14/2010 7:58:46 PM

BIG NEWS AWAITS. MORE LATER.

6/14/2010 8:02:18 PM

Does it involve finally solving the MARTA acronym consensus?

6/14/2010 8:05:09 PM

I got all excited until I saw the date of the first post. Now I'm left wondering why it was bumped

6/14/2010 8:16:10 PM

same for me. I started reading and then noticed the timestamps.

clearly, not enough people with good subway experiences to know they're a good thing. though if you've ridden the Manila subway you might be less inclined to want one. Theirs is not my favorite.

6/14/2010 8:26:08 PM

Many thanks to qntmfred for the epic bump.

I was doing some reading today and it looks like they're going to try again to get DAT 190% FED MONEY.

Quote :

"Transit advocates gearing up to push a transit tax to bring light rail to Triangle RALEIGH – A redesigned web site for a pro-mass transit group is the opening salvo in a stepped-up campaign to win voters’ approval for a half-cent sales tax to fund transit improvements in the Triangle, notably a light rail system. Capital Area Friends of Transit, a Wake County-based alliance of state and local organizations and civic leaders unveiled their new web site last week. The site contains a petition supporting transit improvements as well as several pages laying out the arguments for transit improvements and the necessity for a transit tax. Gearing up to lead the charge for a transit tax was part of the motivation for the web site’s redesign, acknowledged Karen Rindge, executive director of Wake Up Wake County, one of the alliance members. “The Triangle is one of the few major metropolitan regions in the country without any kind of light rail system,” said Rindge, who is a “convenor” for Capital Area Friends of Transit. Triangle planners have for several years tried to win federal aid for a light rail system. A primary reason that previous efforts failed was because the Triangle – unlike Charlotte, which has a light rail system serving downtown – does not have a dedicated local funding source for the system. The half-cent sales tax would solve that problem. The tax was made possible last year when Gov. Bev Perdue signed legislation authorizing a transit sales tax in the Triangle (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill) and Triad (Greensboro-High Point-Winston Salem) if voters approve in a referendum. Rindge said transit supporters hope for a referendum in the fall of 2011, but she said the timing depends on a number of factors, including the price of gas, the state of the economy and what public polling reveals about voter attitudes toward the tax. Wake County commissioners would have to agree to put the referendum on the ballot, and their approval is hardly automatic as that body is controlled by Republicans; local Republicans have been very reluctant to support new taxes in the past. But Rindge said light rail is a crucial piece of the puzzle for the Triangle’s future and it has bipartisan support. “We all know that Wake County’s population is going to double and we have to plan for that growth and plan for the increased traffic it will bring and how to move it efficiently,” she said. A light rail system has environmental benefits and economic benefits, she said. Taking cars off the roads will help air quality, and giving people who cannot afford cars a viable transportation alternative will help those who are struggling financially, she said. Plus, building the rail system will bring jobs to the Triangle, she said. She noted that light rail has the support of the Regional Transportation Alliance, a program of the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce that is spearheaded by more than 100 leading companies and anchored by 23 chambers of commerce in 10 counties. The last poll of that alliance, released in March, showed that more than 50 percent of registered voters would vote for a half-cent local option sales tax to improve public transportation in the Triangle. Commenting on that poll,” Joe Milazzo, executive director of the Regional Transit Alliance, said: “Triangle voters continue to support expansions in bus and rail transit offerings. Respondents report that transit will benefit their quality of life, including those who don’t expect to use it.”"

http://www.examiner.com/x-13755-Raleigh-City-Buzz-Examiner~y2010m6d3-Transit-advocates-gearing-up-to-push-a-transit-tax-to-bring-light-rail-to-Triangle

Hopefully the census data saying that Raleigh is the 2nd fastest growing metropolitan area in the country (Provo, UT can suck it) and the fact that there is surprising lack of any light rail will win us some pity.

Here's a cool website from transit supporters:
http://www.capitalareafriendsoftransit.org/
sign the petition

6/14/2010 9:13:34 PM

Petition signed

6/14/2010 9:29:52 PM