If they bring a box van, you bring an articulated bus
Gas tax dollars from motorists around the country will be used to help Chicago, Illinois implement an innovative system to raise the cost of parking in the city. Under a $153 million federal grant approved in April, Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) will remove lanes from general purpose use on the city’s busiest streets and devote them exclusively to a new rapid transit service using sixty-foot long articulated buses. The program also means more red lights for motorists as the double-sized buses will have the ability to change traffic lights.
Seattle has been trying to do this in their downtown for a couple years now. I guess they never thought that someone in the federal government would give them money to implement it.
I can hear the city council screaming “Next!” all the way in Tacoma.
When I was a cop in Detroit they tried the articulated bus over 25 yrs ago. The problem was no one used them, you see most of the people who worked downtown where the bus routes were lived in the suburbs the drove their cars to work. It was not safe on the buses, even the people who lived in the city didn’t use them. They slowly disappered.
Another brilliant idea. Several years ago the city decided to put counterflow bus lanes on one way streets. Most of downtown Chicago streets are one way. People who had walked from train stations for years were used to looking only one way when they crossed the street. It was a massacre. Busing running over people left and right. Nobody wants to get on a bus in Chicago, bad things can happen.
Libs don’t care if anyone rides these busses. Just the fact that the exist is reason enough to have them. Makes them feel good.