Showing posts with label Mass Transit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mass Transit. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Detroit's Q-Line Gets A Nice State Taxpayer Bailiout

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Democrats do love their toy trains. I've blogged quite a bit on the Q-Line , a private-public partnership with losses socialized and pro...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

Ride The D-Qline

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Detroit's 3.3 mile long rail-transit of wonder, the Q-line, is already deteriorating after 2 years of operation. The Detroit Free Press:...
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Thursday, May 16, 2019

Progressives on Mass Transit: Not Working? Do It More And Harder.

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Yet again, the advocates while at the same time claiming that the Q-Line would be the future for mass transit are now admitting that its fai...
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Friday, April 19, 2019

Monorail! Now With Proposed New Expensive Connections To Toledo and Monroe!

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The fever dreams of urban mass-transit planners and their love of trains is so quaint. At least it is until you realize taxpayers will be on...
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Wednesday, May 02, 2018

Not Riding The D-Qline - Detroit's Q-Line Ridership Drops When No Longer Free, Unexpectedly.

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Who could have predicted that the Q-Line, a 3.3 mile streetcar line that moves about evenly with the speed of walking feet, would have a dec...
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Monday, January 15, 2018

If At First You Don't Get Voters To Raise Taxes, Just Try To Get Voters To Raise Taxes Again

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The last attempt at a regional transit levy ran out of gas as it was basically a subsidy for Detroit and for the SWPL types in Ann Arbor wit...
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Thursday, May 11, 2017

Ride The D-QLine

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Well Detroit now has it's shiny new streetcar. The Detroit News: Amid Detroit area transit debate, cue the QLine 3.3 miles of streetca...
Monday, February 13, 2017

Why Detroit Can't Have Nice Things

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Not even in operation yet, and already the QLine streetcars, have been vandalized. Set to travel all of 3.3 miles of Woodward Avenue, they ...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Who Knew DDOT Stood For Drunken Drivers Offer Transport?

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Tam has a continuing series detailing the follies of the Indianapolis Police Department and its officers issues with drunken driving and su...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

M1 Rail To Nowhere Looking For More Of Other People's Money

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Light Rail is nirvana for the SWPL folks. It's apparently such a draw that you can cancel it , but it keeps coming back again. Even at...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Meanwhile In Detroit - Got Change For The Bus?

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How Bad is it in Detroit? It's so bad, it costs them $1 million to count $14 million in fares a year - and they count the fares by hand...
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Monday, September 09, 2013

Even Shinier Than Light Rail - Its Bus Rapid Transit!

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In the continuing effort to regionalize Detroit's expenses and wastage on the suburbs, there's a new push for a new tax on the regio...
Friday, June 08, 2012

How About A Little Free Market In Your Michigan Transportation Network?

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Faced with boondoggles of expensive high-speed rail to nowhere, bus drivers that go on strike, and a public transportation deep in debt and ...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Moving People To Distraction and Deficit - Detroit's Blue Model Transit In Action

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Michigan Capitol Confidential in Detroit: The Triumph of Progressive Public Policy helps explain how we got into this mess - decades of lib...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

Detroit's Light Rail Redux - If At First You Don't Suceed, Get Subsidised Again!

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The previous plan, now rejected as too expensive was allegedly going to cost around $300 million to build and require subsidies in the amoun...
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Sunday, December 25, 2011

Freep And Progressives VERY Upset Detroit Light Rail Boondoggle is Cancelled

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While this day is full of Christmas cheer for many, The Detroit Free Press is all upset that Detroit's most prominent SWPL project, a li...
Saturday, November 05, 2011

Detroit Transit Follies Continue

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So yesterday, the Detroit Bus Drivers decided walk out and not work due to one of their members being attacked on a route, leaving Detroiter...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

A Trouble with Transit

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Progressive types love mass transit. Whether it be the current siren song of high speed rails to nowhere or busses to shlep the hoi polloi ...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

More Examples of Mass Transit Excellence - Seattle Edition

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Security Guards Watch as Girl, 15, Beaten in Seattle Metro Bus Tunnel hree security guards watched a group of teens punch, kick and rob a 15...
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Thursday, February 04, 2010

Detroit's Mass Transit Hell

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The Progressives wet dream of mass transit for Detroit continues to unfold as a nightmare: Assaults, robberies plague new transit center Wit...