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iamspartacus May 21, 2013 at 06:42 am
@ fairfield resident: better get your eyes checked they both are wearing safety belts tied off to…Read More the structural steel....it appears madame you are the IDIOT but that is par for the course
Jim Eastwood May 21, 2013 at 04:43 am
To All , The First Responders, The State of Connecticut, Metro North, the NTSB and on and…Read More on-------THANK YOU !!!!!!!
Gary Jeanfaivre (Editor) May 21, 2013 at 11:28 am
Congratulations, Nicholas! Your heroic effort to save your friend is most deserving of this award…Read More and an inspiration.
Frederick Klein May 20, 2013 at 10:12 am
I agree with Chuck's comments about the barriers (unless there's a safety reason of which we are not…Read More aware), but otherwise I thought the commute went smoothly this morning. I only had to wait a few minutes for a shuttle to Westport and then was on my way.
Chuck E. Arla May 20, 2013 at 08:59 am
Can somebody tell me what purpose was served by MetroNorth (or Fairfield) PD putting barriers on…Read More both stairs on the Fairfield station (Unqowa Rd) overpass? All this does is force commuters to walk all the way around the station to access the buses. Makes no sense. Put yellow tape to block access to the platform itself but NOT the stairways into/out of the station.
Porter Gladstone III May 19, 2013 at 04:09 pm
I read that Jim Cameron --the darien native and commuter rail chair is asking , to accommodate…Read More displaced train riders--that parking rules be suspended so that these people have a place to park.
TERRIBLE IDEA. Come on Jim!!
At all of these parking lots there are never more than a handful of empty spots. All you are going to accomplish by waiving the parking rules is to allow people from (fill in the blank) to park in a spot paid for by a person who lives in (fill in the blank.) So people who commute after 745am will have no where to park. Solving nothing except transferring the problem from one person to the next.
Jim--think this through. It's not like , for example, Noroton Heights has an extra 200 spots that go idle.
ahblid May 21, 2013 at 06:54 am
Porter,
Many love to talk about the Free Market when it comes to trains. Only the Free Market no…Read More longer exists. In fact, trains were the only form of transportation, save horses and walking, that existed in a true Free Market. Years ago, passenger trains were all privately owned & operated. The Free Market died when Government started subsidizing flying & driving. --------- And here's one other data point for you. According to the Taxpayer's Receipt for 2009, a married couple with 2 kids and $80K in income watched $110.06 of their Federal income tax dollars go into highways. A retired couple with $100K in income saw $89.38 go to the highways, even if they can no longer drive a car, much less own one.
That big, bad Amtrak that many like you love to complain about. The couple with 2 kids paid $3.83 towards that, the retired couple $3.11.
ahblid May 21, 2013 at 05:58 am
Porter,
How quickly you forget what you've already ready. No doubt that's do to that fact that you…Read More don't wish to admit the truth to yourself. It's called dodging and misdirection what you're doing. The first link that I provided you showed that in 2010 it was 42%. The second link that I provided you with showed that in 2007 it was 51%, before putting back in diverted monies which would bring it back up to 65%. I'm sorry Sir, but the only one being dishonest here is YOU! -------- As for zeroing in when the tax was last raised, I only did that because you questioned my time line, again because you weren't paying attention to what you read. ----------- So once again, go back to the Subsidyscope link, which provides you with a nice pretty picture of the funding since the start of the Interstate Highway System. It quite clearly shows that we've never gotten as high 90% in the entire history of the Interstate Highway System. -------- And once again, since the Federal fuel tax was diverted from its primary purpose of paying down out national debt, as enacted back in 1932 by then President Herbert Hoover, the real truth is that the numbers are ever lower than what is shown in the Subsidyscope graph. Since you like to claim that the money diverted to transit should count, I'm going to claim that every dime in Federal money was not paid for by drivers since it was diverted from paying on the debt as was intended.
Porter Gladstone III May 21, 2013 at 04:09 am
Ahblid,
"if you had read fully."
65 or 51 --which one equals 42 as you claim? We were…Read More talking about subsidies and now you are zeroing in on when it was raised as opposed to how much has been allocated to highways? Why?
In any event, your style has exposed a level of dishonesty, so i did my own internet surfing....and found time after time this:
The Interstate Highway System was built without a dime of subsidy, being funded entirely with gas taxes and other highway-user fees;
For the last 60 years virtually no federal money and very little state money other than highway-user fees have been spent on any highways or roads;
Cities and counties, however, do spend property, income, and sales taxes subsidizing new local roads and street maintenance;
But these subsidies are partly offset by diversions of federal and state highway-user fees to mass transit and other nonhighway programs;
Bottom line: user fees cover nearly 90 percent of the total amount spent on highway construction, maintenance, and operations.
So, since the last 60 years no federal money has been spent and of course when new developments in towns require new roads property taxes go to build those roads-
Sorry --your statement is false.
willban1 May 18, 2013 at 11:21 am
Next non reported news- 12 businesses in Bridgeport Closed Their Doors. Thank You Democrats.
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