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YouTubeIn an effort to pretend like Kasich won't win the governorship and Ohio might get to build the 3C train, I want to know...if we do get a rail station in Columbus, what would you name it? Stick with the Union Station standard? Or go with something more unique? Ohio Station? Buckeye Station? High Station? Arch Station? Strickland Station? Any other ideas out there?
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What would you name Columbus' rail station?
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cbustransit
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Rockmastermike
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RoundTowner
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I would love to see a rail system in Ohio. But, we cannot afford it, even with $400 million in stimulus funds. It would be like someone giving me the Wexner estate for free, all I would have to do is pay the utilities and taxes. STILL COULD NOT AFFORD IT. When will people learn to stop wanting things they cannot pay for.
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Cookie
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RoundTowner wrote >>
I would love to see a rail system in Ohio. But, we cannot afford it, even with $400 million in stimulus funds. It would be like someone giving me the Wexner estate for free, all I would have to do is pay the utilities and taxes. STILL COULD NOT AFFORD IT. When will people learn to stop wanting things they cannot pay for.How would you even fit that on the sign?
Posted 1 year ago # -
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Cookie wrote >>
RoundTowner wrote >>
I would love to see a rail system in Ohio. But, we cannot afford it, even with $400 million in stimulus funds. It would be like someone giving me the Wexner estate for free, all I would have to do is pay the utilities and taxes. STILL COULD NOT AFFORD IT. When will people learn to stop wanting things they cannot pay for.How would you even fit that on the sign?
haha
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Paul
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Rockmastermike wrote >>
Paul wrote >>
Boondoggle Station.Is that what they're renaming Vancouver's beautiful Pacific Central train station?
Never stops with you, does it?
I never saw any reply to my post addressing you calling me a "hypocrite" among other things in the rail thread.
Hop back on there and respond to my points or stop being a harassing dick.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Rockmastermike
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Paul wrote >>
Rockmastermike wrote >>
Paul wrote >>
Boondoggle Station.Is that what they're renaming Vancouver's beautiful Pacific Central train station?
Never stops with you, does it?
I never saw any reply to my post addressing you calling me a "hypocrite" among other things in the rail thread.
Hop back on there and respond to my points or stop being a harassing dick.Didn't even see your post, so whatever, but there isn't much you could have said back there that really changes my opinion of you.
Enjoy your mass transit system. It has done very good things for your city and your economy.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Core_Models
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RoundTowner wrote >>
I would love to see a rail system in Ohio. But, we cannot afford it, even with $400 million in stimulus funds. It would be like someone giving me the Wexner estate for free, all I would have to do is pay the utilities and taxes. STILL COULD NOT AFFORD IT. When will people learn to stop wanting things they cannot pay for.Again...can we just have the blue sign money? If we can have that, we can end this discussion. You can have the rest of the ODOT budget in its entirety and revamp overpasses for a couple hundred million bucks year round, we just want the blue sign money.
Regardless, at this point I think we can just name the thing "Unicorn Junction", because when Kasich gets elected there won't be one.
Posted 1 year ago # -
vestanpance
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station hop
Posted 1 year ago # -
Rockmastermike
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Core_Models wrote >>
Again...can we just have the blue sign money? If we can have that, we can end this discussion. You can have the rest of the ODOT budget in its entirety and revamp overpasses for a couple hundred million bucks year round, we just want the blue sign money.
Regardless, at this point I think we can just name the thing "Unicorn Junction", because when Kasich gets elected there won't be one.yep. and gas will always be 99 cents/gallon... er.. i mean $1.50/gal... er... wait, I mean $2.50/gal.... so yeah there's totally no point in society persuing anything other than cars and trucks.
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Paul
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Rockmastermike wrote >>
Paul wrote >>
Rockmastermike wrote >>
Paul wrote >>
Boondoggle Station.Is that what they're renaming Vancouver's beautiful Pacific Central train station?
Never stops with you, does it?
I never saw any reply to my post addressing you calling me a "hypocrite" among other things in the rail thread.
Hop back on there and respond to my points or stop being a harassing dick.Didn't even see your post, so whatever, but there isn't much you could have said back there that really changes my opinion of you.
Enjoy your mass transit system. It has done very good things for your city and your economy.I hate to drag the other thread into this one, but since you keep coming at me with such vitirol in both threads, and I don't know how to link to the individual post in the Kasich/3C thread, here you go:
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Walker wrote >>
You can probably vote for someone who can kill the funding for the Pacific Northwest Corridor though, right? So not all is lost.Rockmastermike wrote >>
Enjoy your wonderful system of public transportation up there in Vancouver? I know I did when I visited there and it was a major reason I wish to go back to the city.
In short, I'm not going to mince words, you really sound like a total hypocrite voicing that opinion in a thread about a city that isn't even in your own country when your city has blossomed in no small part because of it's transportation infrastructure.JimSweeney wrote >>
clean and equitable public transit is more of a Vancouver thing eh?Oh wow. Because I live in a city that has a viable metro rail system I must be in favor of a 3C train?
You want to know the difference between the skytrain and the proposed Ohio rail system? The skytrain doesn't take you to Cleveland. It takes you from the Vancouver airport to downtown Vancouver. Or from downtown to the suburbs where you work or live. Or from downtown to other parts of the city.
As for the Amtrack Cascades route. I lived 3 blocks from the Bellingham station, and I never rode it once. Nobody who came to visit me in Bellingham (from either Vancouver or Seattle or Portland) ever rode it. I've never even heard of anyone I know or anyone they know riding it. You want to know why? If you want to go from Bellingham to Vancouver you either leave at 9:49AM or 8:58PM. If you want to go from Vancouver to Bellingham you leave at either 6:40AM or 5:45PM. And the train takes 2 hours, whereas driving takes a little over an hour. Not to mention you depart and arrive at train stations as opposed to door-to-door.
You guys are insane. If I don't approve of a 3C railroad then I must hate all mass transit? Might I just think that one particular rail line is not a good idea, while still thinking mass transit for other applications is a great idea?
And RMM, you make quite a few other assumptions. Like that the fact that I live in Vancouver now means I didn't live for a quarter century in central Ohio, or that the US isn't 'my country.'
Transportation infrastructure here in Vancouver is good, but could use improvements, as well.
I don't agree that a train along the lines of what has been proposed connecting Cincy-Columbus-Cleveland is a good idea.Posted 1 year ago # -
Core_Models
Columbus
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I don't agree that a train along the lines of what has been proposed connecting Cincy-Columbus-Cleveland is a good idea.
Do you have a better one with 400M in funding already attached?
ETA: Lets be clear, btw, that 400M can't be spent on other stuff as Kasich suggested in the debate, nor will it be put back into the Federal Budget if we refuse it. Its 400M dollars that is considered spent for budget purposes, and spent on rail. It will buy 400M worth of rail and jobs for Ohio...or for somewhere else.
Posted 1 year ago # -
futureman
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Core_Models wrote >>
RoundTowner wrote >>
I would love to see a rail system in Ohio. But, we cannot afford it, even with $400 million in stimulus funds. It would be like someone giving me the Wexner estate for free, all I would have to do is pay the utilities and taxes. STILL COULD NOT AFFORD IT. When will people learn to stop wanting things they cannot pay for."Unicorn Junction"
A (sad) +1 for the station name
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Rockmastermike
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Paul wrote >>
I hate to drag the other thread into this one, but since you keep coming at me with such vitirol in both threads,sorry I missed that.
But yeah. nothing you said there really changes my opinion. You can say nobody takes trains in the pacific northwest and that nobody rides it because YOU don't and ignore ridership statistics that prove it really is an important part of the total system. You're enjoying the benefits of that total system (even some you don't use yourself you receive economic and other benefits from) while insisting that there is no benefit.Posted 1 year ago # -
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futureman wrote >>
Core_Models wrote >>
RoundTowner wrote >>
I would love to see a rail system in Ohio. But, we cannot afford it, even with $400 million in stimulus funds. It would be like someone giving me the Wexner estate for free, all I would have to do is pay the utilities and taxes. STILL COULD NOT AFFORD IT. When will people learn to stop wanting things they cannot pay for."Unicorn Junction"
A (sad) +1 for the station name
ha unicorn
yeah that fits
Posted 1 year ago # -
Rockmastermike
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JoeMitchell wrote >>
futureman wrote >>
Core_Models wrote >>
RoundTowner wrote >>
I would love to see a rail system in Ohio. But, we cannot afford it, even with $400 million in stimulus funds. It would be like someone giving me the Wexner estate for free, all I would have to do is pay the utilities and taxes. STILL COULD NOT AFFORD IT. When will people learn to stop wanting things they cannot pay for."Unicorn Junction"
A (sad) +1 for the station name
ha unicorn
yeah that fitsI actually hope that name sticks when it gets built (and it will, it just might not be until gas holds ~$5/gal)
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