BIKE: Re: commuter rail in Mudville

[Nawdry]

At 10/11/2004 14:01 , Patrick Goetz <pgoetz> wrote:

>When I *personally* met with UT officials to
>discuss the possibility of a monorail servicing campus, they thought it
>was an absolutely brilliant idea.  The director of the Center for
>Transportation Research, Randy Machemehl, who was at the meeting, was so
>enthused that he made his class watch a monorail propaganda video so
>over the top that not even I would approve of it.  I happen to know this
>because one of my friends is in his class this semester.

I don't know whom else Patrick might have met with, but Machemehl was never 
presented as a "UT official" in any decisionmaking capacity I am aware of 
with regard to major official transportation decisions between UT 
administration and Capital Metro.

LH