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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 20, 2013 at 01:06 pm
Porter,
I'm not off by a few years at all. Notice that the article stated "The amount of…Read More federal fuel tax allocated to highway purposes has not increased since 1997". It didn't say that the fuel tax had gone up! The last increase to the fuel tax was 1993. However, back in 1990 when President George H W Bush increased the fuel tax, he sent 2.5 cents of the increase back to the original purpose of the Federal fuel tax, paying down our national debt. In 1993 when President Bill Clinton increased the tax again, he added another 2.5 cents for paying down our debt. ------------ In 1997, Congress redirected that nickle back into the Highway Trust Fund. -------- Next, those studies include both Federal & State spending & fuel taxes. The Fed only spends about $50 Billion per year on highways. The other $150 Billion is the State spending. ---------- As for some of the money going to public transportation, had you read the article fully, you would have noticed that adding back in those funds would still only get us drivers to 65%, from the 51% reported for 2007. So we drivers are still getting a subsidy no matter how you want to slice it. And seeing as how the entire Federal fuel tax was originally diverted from its primary purpose of paying down on our debt in 1956 to the highways, crying about diversions of money that was already diverted in the first place doesn't wash. ----------- Finally, enough with the unions. It changes nothing towards the original point that I was making to Godbully so many posts ago, that both train riders and drivers get subsidies. And it's not an argument, it's a fact. I didn't say that unions continue today because employers take advantage, even though it is true that they would do so in a heart beat, I said and I quote: "Unions exist today only because employers used to take advantage of employees." Please note the key words "only" and "used to".
willban1 May 18, 2013 at 11:21 am
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