BIKE: Re: Rail Issues (2)

[Michael Bluejay]

On Oct 27, 2004, at 8:08 PM, Nawdry wrote:

> Far-right, anti-transit charlatans are clearly making a top priority 
> of taking advantage of occasional glitches... to attack Metro's 
> amazingly attractive and cost-effective new rail service....  
> Obviously, to tweak LRT performance, design modifications or major 
> crowd-control measures are needed... but by and large the system is 
> achieving urban development and mobility goals beyond the wildest 
> dreams of planners.


It would be nice if you afforded the same generosity to the *brand-new* 
LV monorail, but no, they have some problems during startup and you 
can't resist ranting and raving about how it "proves" that monorail is 
just stupid, unworkable technology.  But when light rail runs into any 
problems you fall all over yourself to offer excuses and come to its 
defense by dismissing the "occasional glitches" and the need for 
"tweaks".

This is why you've lost credibility with me.  I don't have any big 
preference towards monorail or light rail, I can't feel I'm getting a 
fair analysis from you.  Probably much of what you say about various 
things is true, but it's too hard for me to try to pick out the truth 
from the spin and so I'm just tending to ignore most of it.  I think if 
you focused on fairness rather than trying to obliterate the opposition 
while painting your own side in glowing terms you'd actually wind up 
with more people on your side.

-MBJ-