Someone Has Finally Listened - Southern Univeristy Coming to Ruston in 2015

[OLDBLUE]

But that's okay, I think the original was over with, finally.

[HogDawg]

Yes ... people can't get, or keep, jobs without transportation to those jobs. Right now, our transportation infrastructure practically makes automobile ownership a prerequisite to joining the workforce.

It's unfair and unfortunate that transit is perceived as a social program for the poor. That same logic is not applied when considering the staggering public investment in highways, which are effectively an entitlement program for car owners.

......and the trucks that deliver the food and goods that you and your family consume when you're sitting around the campfire singing kumbaya!

[HogDawg]

Things work in Texas. They have it figured out. Less liberal corruption maybe? More toll roads? More public transportation?

It's a red state. With mostly conservative red state politicians. It's truly amazing that Champ967 can't connect the dots.

[Champ967]

......and the trucks that deliver the food and goods that you and your family consume when you're sitting around the campfire singing kumbaya!

Id like to participate, but out of respect for the sports forum, I must abstain.

[Cool Hand Clyde]

I've heard him sing kumbaya. He's a terrible singer.

[Geaux Dawgs]

But that's okay, I think the original was over with, finally.

Right click, save........

[Champ967]

......and the trucks that deliver the food and goods that you and your family consume when you're sitting around the campfire singing kumbaya!

But to clarify ... I have little objection to highways running between communities.

It's the proliferation of auto infrastructure within population centers where I think the costs have come to outweigh the benefits,

[Champ967]

It's a red state. With mostly conservative red state politicians. It's truly amazing that Champ967 can't connect the dots.

Texas Republicans, I've observed, are actually quite moderate, esp. on fiscal issues.

[Tech77]

But to clarify ... I have little objection to highways running between communities.

It's the proliferation of auto infrastructure within population centers where I think the costs have come to outweigh the benefits,

When you drive your horseless carriage from one community to the next, what are you s'pose to do with it while you go in the general store and get your grub and supplies?

[Champ967]

When you drive your horseless carriage from one community to the next, what are you s'pose to do with it while you go in the general store and get your grub and supplies?

Grab your lute and strum a madrigal.

Seriously, y'all are caricaturizing this. I don't object to the existence of cars. Only our dependence on them, and the entitlement arising from that dependence.

[TN Dawg 13]

I thought entitlement mentality was now a right in the US? OK, now I'm just confused.

[Cool Hand Clyde]

Grab your lute and strum a madrigal.

Seriously, y'all are caricaturizing this. I don't object to the existence of cars. Only our dependence on them, and the entitlement arising from that dependence.

Memphis has spent a good chunk of change installing bike lanes throughout the city. We even have a "bike lane czar" whose job is to get federal funds to build more. These were met with much ridicule in the poorest areas of the city, yet these are the folks complaining about lack of transportation. There is a certain element of the population that will never be satisfied with anything.

[Champ967]

There is a certain element of the population that will never be satisfied with anything.

Yeah -- don't know what to say about that.