tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3429342286679609717.post8474586162006357594..comments2024-03-06T06:52:39.051-05:00Comments on The Lexington Streetsweeper: Do We See Some Movement HereThe Lexington Streetsweeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951887343694165562noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3429342286679609717.post-9142109658960508902009-04-23T17:01:00.000-04:002009-04-23T17:01:00.000-04:00I despair at Lexington's backwardness and inabilit...I despair at Lexington's backwardness and inability to grasp the concept that building an entire metro area on no serious transportation except gas/diesel cars and gas/diesel powered buses has no where to go, literally. If this means just making a half-a$$ed non-effort to kind of put buses sort of maybe more or less within a mile or so of new developments, that is entirely unacceptable and ultimately unsustainable. <br /><br />As things stand now, they need to make some kind of effort to get real electric mass transit (streetcars, trolleys, trams, monorail, or whatever) to the already built neighborhoods - and you don't see that happening, now do you? They can't think outside the box - worse, they deny the box exists. But private automobiles can't last as any metro area's major transportation source beyond the next decade or so, and if they aren't already tackling that problem as a top priority, there is not a snowball's chance in heck that they will seriously integrate new development with sustainable transit. <br /><br />How could they, when there's no sustainable transit to integrate? The existing bus system is a condescending nod to the poor, presumed by Lexington's powers that be to only serve the underclasses. It's terribly ironic that they'd have such a redneck, backwoods view of mass transit - especially when the Equestrian Games are going to be bringing sophisticated Europeans who will surely ridicule such ignorance.Ahavahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12795309173195607578noreply@blogger.com