tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5309390821562093224.post1799996806742388575..comments2024-02-27T04:25:22.147-05:00Comments on In Transit - The Official HART Transit Blog: "Fan Photo Friday" Kickoff on the Streetcar Facebook!HARThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03536156492029474063noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5309390821562093224.post-66550053513610083992013-04-05T08:20:25.998-04:002013-04-05T08:20:25.998-04:00Hi :
Sorry I was out of the office when TBARTA pho...Hi :<br />Sorry I was out of the office when TBARTA phoned with their Conference call .<br />TECO is a wonderful start to a first-rate transit system ... and apparently one that no one wants to discuss. We should have found some way of funding a meaningful extension into downtown Tampa and beyond, so that the trolley can be used as a true transit system.<br />If people object to the expense and clutter of overhead wires reuired by a true trolley system, and management objects to the fragility and maintenance of true trolley pickup, I wonder whether they have considered HYDROLLEY . The recent Hydrail 2013 conference in Canada featured presentations on that very topic . The concept encompasses streetcars powered by ecologically clean and inexpensive fuel cells providing cheap electric power to drive quiet, responsive electric motors, and so avoids the clutter, complexity, maintenance, high initial construction cost of overhead wires and other issues of overhead trolley wires .<br />Most of the advantages of trolleys (true trolleys, not the fake rubber-tired bus systems that have all the disadvantages of buses with all the charm of a Victoran London slum . I had hoped that we would have all been inspired by the leadership of the previous administrations who backed a real trolley transit system, of which we have merely an archaeological trace, operating under a tangle of bureaucratic management that --- after a childhood in Palma Ceia and the last ten years down south of Tampa --- I have not yet begun to untangle.<br />.... just a sleepy southern town ? If you keep it up, that's what you'll have. Watch HGTV, the housing channel with a sharp take on people's housing requirements and choices : One of the first questions asked by executives, technocrats, and creative people from all over the world is "Where are the transit lines? How do I get from the house this realtor is trying to sell me to the office where I was just offered a great position ? I'd love to accept the generous salary and live down here, but I do NOT love the prospective commute by automobile "<br />Please wake up, Tampa ; I hope it's not too late ! To get mildly political, have you all fallen for the nonsense economics that Funding sensible government spending is a financial drain on future generations ? My older brother wound up gladly gladly paying a ton of taxes on the professional income he earned because of the GI Bill that funded his college and professional education . <br />peltaehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00222608249459985803noreply@blogger.com