By: cyclops

cyclops — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:58:17 +0000

Mr. Olson, may I assume that your economic endeavors center around increasing “green” sources of energy and a lessening effect of the carbon footprint in the valley. If so, I am in complete agreement with you, as are many of our fellow citizens. Unfortunately, the proposed streetcar will accomplish none of those goals at a tremendous cost to the city when we can least afford it. This project will not remove a single car from traffic, it will not lessen the carbon footprint problem,
(in fact it will make it worse, due to the slowing of traffic downtown as we negotiate the same traffic lanes with a streetcar that moves at a much slower speed). Without any sort of destination on either end of the proposed route, we can expect very low ridership at a tremendous ongoing cost to the citizens of Boise. I fail to see any way of looking at this with any hope of a positive outcome, now, or in the future!

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By: cyclops