Comments on: Transit Progress and the Kindness of Strangers http://o.masstransitmag.com/interactive/2008/08/22/transit-progress-and-the-kindness-of-strangers/ Mass Transit's editor, Leah Harnack, speaks weekly on critical issues facing the public transportation industry. Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:57:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Phillip Schultz http://o.masstransitmag.com/interactive/2008/08/22/transit-progress-and-the-kindness-of-strangers/#comment-6542 Phillip Schultz Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:01:44 +0000 http://www.masstransitmag.com/interactive/2008/08/22/transit-progress-and-the-kindness-of-strangers/#comment-6542 Could you please send this to my local paper? Aspen Times. We are in a fight for a sale tax increase and the local rich and not too bright are taking out full page ads as to how inefficient Mass Transit is and how the full cost should be paid by fares. Could you please send this to my local paper? Aspen Times. We are in a fight for a sale tax increase and the local rich and not too bright are taking out full page ads as to how inefficient Mass Transit is and how the full cost should be paid by fares.

]]> By: Stan Thompson http://o.masstransitmag.com/interactive/2008/08/22/transit-progress-and-the-kindness-of-strangers/#comment-6229 Stan Thompson Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:08:23 +0000 http://www.masstransitmag.com/interactive/2008/08/22/transit-progress-and-the-kindness-of-strangers/#comment-6229 [www.hydrail.org is not my website but that of Appalachian State University, the main source of hydrail information online] With track electrification approaching $4.5 million per mile, externally powered streetcars are the Blanche DuBois of transit--genteel but long in the tooth and ready for a kindly transit early-adopter to usher them into retirement, making way for the ingenue; the hydrolley. Buses have long shown that hydrogen fuel cell technology is a transit option. Why not mate it with the panache of steel wheels and at-grade convenience? If I were a transit pro (instead of a kind stranger), I would view embarking on a new catenary streetcar line as akin to designing a new steam locomotive in 1960. You were a real beauty, Blanche, but step back a couple of feet. Here comes the curtain...and the hydrolley. [www.hydrail.org is not my website but that of Appalachian State University, the main source of hydrail information online]

With track electrification approaching $4.5 million per mile, externally powered streetcars are the Blanche DuBois of transit–genteel but long in the tooth and ready for a kindly transit early-adopter to usher them into retirement, making way for the ingenue; the hydrolley.

Buses have long shown that hydrogen fuel cell technology is a transit option. Why not mate it with the panache of steel wheels and at-grade convenience?

If I were a transit pro (instead of a kind stranger), I would view embarking on a new catenary streetcar line as akin to designing a new steam locomotive in 1960.

You were a real beauty, Blanche, but step back a couple of feet. Here comes the curtain…and the hydrolley.

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