[milwaukee-electric] Transfers.

[Louis Rugani]

One transfer is no big deal as long as you're out of the rain and snow. We have transfers to and from Metra/Wisconsin Coach/shuttle buses all the time in Kenosha. Then there's the Skokie Swift/Green Line transfer at Howard Street. No biggies. Me, I'd be glad to get off the gutterliner and onto a streetcar for part of my commute. 

=Lou=

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The opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.       Robert Anthony


-----Original Message-----
From: Ken and Tracie
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 1:26 PM
To: milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org
Cc: Schneider Fred
Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Milwaukee streetcar route.

Personally, I'd rather ride on rails, but I believe truncating bus lines 
short of their original terminal and forcing people to transfer to a car 
line would be a publicity nightmare, playing right into the hands of the 
Wendell Cox crowd.

The accusations that doing so to inflate the rail line's passenger count 
and/or giving the Rush Limbaughs of the world ammunition, as they would say 
the mandated transfer is an example of "government making the public do 'the 
right thing.'" I see this as being detrimental to the "Back to Rails" 
movement.

Just my uneducated opinion.

K.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Louis Rugani" <x779 at webtv.net>
To: <milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:31 AM
Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Milwaukee streetcar route.


> My answer would be that the words "being forced" much more closely apply 
> to bus ridership than anything to do with rail, the latter by far being 
> the transit method of choice.
>
> =Lou=
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> ~~~~~~~~~~ **-=\/=-** ~~~~~~~~~~
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> The opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.       Robert 
> Anthony
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken and Tracie
> Sent: Saturday, May 8, 2010 11:04 AM
> To: milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org
> Cc: Schneider Fred
> Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Electric railways, streetcars, 
> interurbans, trams, light rail lines and trolley buses worldwide. City 
> officials announce Downtown Milwaukee streetcar route.
>
> A few months ago, I thought I raised the question as to whether or not the
> average MCTS bus rider would rather stay on rubber tires for a one seat 
> ride
> Downtown rather than being forced onto a circular streetcar line for the
> last two miles of his/her trip.
>
> K.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Louis Rugani" <x779 at webtv.net>
> To: <milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 8:48 AM
> Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Electric railways, streetcars, interurbans,
> trams, light rail lines and trolley buses worldwide. City officials 
> announce
> Downtown Milwaukee streetcar route.
>
>
>> Haven't heard a peep on this list yet about this long-awaited Milwaukee
>> traction renaissance:
>> =Lou=
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~ **-=\/=-** ~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> The opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.       Robert
>> Anthony
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