Charlotte is adding another light rail line

[Lame Duck]

2 hours ago, travisura said:

This line is going to be a commuter rail line, not a light rail line. This line will have basically have only one goal, which is to bring people into uptown from the suburbs to the north, and send them back to the burbs at the end of the day. I think every station will have a park-and-ride lot, intended to incentivize commuters to not drive their vehicle all the way into uptown. This will ideally lead to cars making shorter trips, less cars on the road, and a less congested uptown. While I believe that in an ideal world, there would not be a need for a car at any point in a trip, this is a good step for a city building out its public transportation.

Also, I don't understand the disdain for this being funded by taxes. This is the type of project that taxes should pay for, and unless it's being privately funded by a corporation (a terrible idea for transit), then it has to be taxpayer funded.

There’s already line not too far away and most folks who work in uptown live East and South, not North.  So who are they going to commute to Uptown?  It will likely be another fail just most other things city planners do.

[travisura]

36 minutes ago, Lame Duck said:

There’s already line not too far away and most folks who work in uptown live East and South, not North.  So who are they going to commute to Uptown?  It will likely be another fail just most other things city planners do.

Not too far away? Try getting to Lake Norman from the Blue line and see how well that goes. You should look at a map of the proposed routes. While they both technically go north, they’re serving very different corridors. 

Nobody comes from the Lake Norman area to uptown? Have you seen 77 at rush hour? Lol.

[Lame Duck]

2 minutes ago, travisura said:

Not too far away? Try getting to Lake Norman from the Blue line and see how well that goes. You should look at a map of the proposed routes. While they both technically go north, they’re serving very different corridors. 

Nobody comes from the Lake Norman area to uptown? Have you seen 77 at rush hour? Lol.

Yea but how convenient is that to have two lines go north plus toll lanes while no one else gets anything?  East and South also projected to grow more than twice as fast as North on latest Mecklenburg projection data.  I drive from uptown in all directions.  I can get on I77 toll lane zoom thru to lake Norman no problem.  I literally get stuck and stop and gone to East and South with no way around.  Do we need to spend poo ton of money again to help North while the growth and traffic issues are all East and South?

[travisura]

1 hour ago, Lame Duck said:

Yea but how convenient is that to have two lines go north plus toll lanes while no one else gets anything?  East and South also projected to grow more than twice as fast as North on latest Mecklenburg projection data.  I drive from uptown in all directions.  I can get on I77 toll lane zoom thru to lake Norman no problem.  I literally get stuck and stop and gone to East and South with no way around.  Do we need to spend poo ton of money again to help North while the growth and traffic issues are all East and South?

I mean I’m all for putting light rail lines all over the city. I’m also not against a commuter rail up the 77 corridor, which you seem to be. 

[Lame Duck]

24 minutes ago, travisura said:

I mean I’m all for putting light rail lines all over the city. I’m also not against a commuter rail up the 77 corridor, which you seem to be. 

I’m against when it comes at cost of pulling light rail East when north already have one and East have none.

[Zaximus]

No silver line is a terrible idea with the amount of traffic coming from Union. 

[Lame Duck]

2 hours ago, Zaximus said:

No silver line is a terrible idea with the amount of traffic coming from Union. 

And that area is beyond booming.  They redeveloped a ton along Monroe Rd hoping for Silver line.  Then they could connect South Blvd to Silver line via Fairview Rd which is only few miles.  That would connect East, South, and North.  I guess it makes too much sense.