Comment 118844

By Tybalt (registered) | Posted May 27, 2016 at 09:36:21

The LRT is a reverse Robin Hood Story. Collect from the poor and give to the rich.

This is garbage. There is no meaningful definition of "poor" where the tax funds to build and maintain and run LRT are in any significant degree coming 'from poor people'. The redistributive effect of LRT is significantly downward on the income spectrum, and not upward, and to pretend otherwise is unsupportable by evidence. If you have figures, I'll be keen to examine them.

I mean, the whole proposal here is a utopian redesign of our transportation system that would involve staggering costs, very many billions, to implement and that would still only be the local costs, not regional. I admire your broad thinking; it has nothing practical whatsoever to recommend it as a mass transit solution, sadly.

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