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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I don't know what the extra highways cost Marie.  But, the fact is almost 
everyone still uses cars, still 'plans' to use cars; so we will be buliding 
new highways -- whatever they cost -- 'plus' the 1.4 billion dollar train.

A billion dollars is still a hell of a lot of money.  And Phoenix doesnt not 
have the money, though they keep raising my frackin property taxes.

I like the train.  It is pretty.  But it cost over a 'billion' dollars.  And 
no-one expects to use it to get back and forth to work -- its supposed 
primary purpose.  The politicians are already making excuses.  The city just 
needas to 'expand' the rail line (more 'billions').  

>From where is this money going to appear?

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--- On Fri, 1/2/09, Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Demotorization
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, January 2, 2009, 7:31 PM
> Bob is worried that the kocal light rail system cost was
> morev rthan a
> billion dollars. Hard as it may be to believe, any and all
> infrastructue systems are going to be pricey. Phoenix
> residents will
> likely be thrilled to have it when gas resumes its
> inexorable march
> toward European-like prices(unless the water gives out
> first and they
> all have tio abandon the area like the Anasazi before
> them).
> 
> I used the Chicago mass transit system for a decade in the
> 1970s. It
> was fine. My niece who has lived in and commuted to and
> from southside
> and near northwest side neighborhoods in the last five
> years says
> buses and trains are still fine. Americans seem to be
> afraid to be in
> public places, but when enough people get out and about
> public places
> get safer.
> 
> Bob, what do you think all the extra highways for people
> who are
> afraid to get out of thei cars cost?
> 
> Marie
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