Comments on: ACHD Chair Snubs Citizens, Denies Comments

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:34:25 +0000

Guardian, I admire your eternal optimism:
a public official said they would accept public comment, and you apparently thought that meant they would actually accept public comment.
Be careful, or you’ll start thinking that when a public official says, this project won’t cost the taxpayers, that the statement means the project won’t cost the taxpayers.

As for the buses: Didn’t they say there were “clean burning”? Well, they were clean, and they burned, didn’t they?

By: James Bond

James Bond — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:13:29 +0000

Will this trolley have a toot-toot horn? I love toot-toot horns, and I will be riding it all the time just to hear the toot-toots.

By: swabby

swabby — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:42:40 +0000

Damn the people, I mean torpedoes, full speed ahead!

By: JIMV

JIMV — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:44:45 +0000

“ACHD Commish SARA BAKER’S BLOG discusses the issue, explaining the “rush to judgement” is motivated by a deadline for spending Federal funds. Wow! We gotta hurry up and make an uninformed decision because transit officials failed to act in a timely manner. She also notes businesses opposed to the plan have contacted her”

So what…the Congress just spent $1,300,000,000,000 in a 1073 page bill they had received less than an hour before debate and 6 hours before the vote. Not a single person in Congress had read the thing!

Our local folk are simply following the lead of their betters.

EDITOR NOTE– Spoken like a true liberal Jim! You have seen the light.

By: Tom Anderson

Tom Anderson — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:31:24 +0000

All this talk of exploding CNG buses…

This is one of the many problems with which the fictional ‘hydrogen economy’ is plagued. Compressed hydrogen, when released by a motor vehicle accident, would create a fast expanding gas cloud that would have a high likelihood of exploding when the air / fuel mixture reached the right ratio.

The ensuing explosion would be horrific, and a ruptured full tank could easily kill everyone anywhere near the accident site.

Not too many people would want to haul their loved ones around in a bomb of this magnatude when violent explosions started being showcased on the 5 O’clock news.

But, of course we all new the ‘hydrogen economy’ was just a construct of big oil used to promise us a bright new ‘clean’ energy future looming right around the corner.

By: cathy

cathy — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:01:17 +0000

Well, at least we have this forum to comment. Maybe the commissioners and public will read them?

By: Sara

Sara — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:15:20 +0000

Cyclops, why don’t you just go ahead and tell us why the cng buses burned.

By: Cyclops

Cyclops — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:56:24 +0000

Just a bit of a “teaser” for The Guardian, Mz. Sewell, Sara, or Sharon.
You may want to do a little “research” and find out “why” the CNG buses burned.

By: Mike Murphy

Mike Murphy — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:36:07 +0000

Update…

Apparently, the aforementioned sight has never even been considered by the powers that be.

How could that be?

Commissioner Baker emailed me back, that:

“We are having a VRT meeting and I’ll suggest your location.”

From a purely logistical and LOGICAL perspective, I think they would be hard pressed to find a better location.

Also…

Having emailed Councilman Shealy [ ashealy@ccdcboise.com ] about this issue, I recieved nasty replies from him or his assistant @ Claremont Partners (insomuch as he apparently intermingles his official email with his private email account) that he was essentially not interested and that they would block my email address from their server.

More of the elitist behavior we’ve come to expect from the good Mr. Shealy, as any regular reader of the Boise Guardian knows [http://voices.idahostatesman.com/2007/10/29/krichert/the_unfiltered_alan_shealy_strikes_again ].

By: bikeboy

bikeboy — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:28:15 +0000

Mr. Murphy… you mention clean-burning CNG. Indeed, I’ve always considered it the best possible fuel. (I bicycle a lot… and when you come up behind a CNG bus, the smell reminds me of a camp stove! That’s a much happier smell than an ol’ tractor or Mack truck – that’s what most buses smell like.)

SO – I was baffled when ValleyRide recently announced they were replacing CNG buses with what they called “clean-burning diesel” buses, like it would be a boon for the environment. I’m not buyin’.