Comments on: If You Record At Bus Terminal, Valley Ride Staff Will Hassle You, Standing Room Only

By: Abandon Main Street Station

Abandon Main Street Station — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:42:31 +0000

Perfectly situated at the terminus of the Connector, Abandon Main Street Station has identified a site — owned by JRS PROPERTIES III L.P. — that offers the opportunity for a public / private partnership that delivers an above-ground Transit Mall magnificent not only in aesthetic; but, in it’s ability to deliver a truly inter-modal hub, incorporating both Valleyride and Greyhound / Charter Buses, Taxicabs, Shuttles, Boise Greenbike, a Downtown Circulator, pedicabs and more, all within walking distance to the downtown core and the proposed baseball stadium.

Abandon Main Street Station will be reaching out to JRS PROPERTIES III L.P. in the coming days to propose such a partnership.

Detailed information about the site can be found at the Ada County Assessor’s website @ [ http://www.adacountyassessor.org/propsys/ViewParcel.do?yearParcel=2017S1010223320&x=p ]

By: Abandon Main Street Station

Abandon Main Street Station — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:43:00 +0000

As is the modus operandi of Boise’s Shadow Government, the CCDC once again played Bait & Switch with the citizens of Boise.

Pitching Main Street Station as a modern inter-modal transit station capable of serving Boise and the Treasure Valley’s needs into the future, we instead got an excruciatingly overpriced subterranean White Elephant unable to accommodate the current fleet of buses — no less allow for expansion — and is “inter-modal” in only the broadest sense of the term.

The interior illustration shown on the CCDC’s website of a gleaming, inviting station with modern conveyances was used to garner public support for this boondoggle.

What Boise got instead is a glorified parking garage of questionable construction as open, airy, and inviting as Hitler’s Bunker.

Devoid of escalators, adorned with dollar store clocks, and with a contraption called a “Bike Trough” that is an accident waiting to happen, Main Street Station should be re-purposed and a truly modern, inter-modal transit mall worthy of Idaho’s Capital City be constructed elsewhere.

Abandon Main Street Station will identify more suitable sites, and propose a provocative method of paying for construction and repaying the Federal Government that includes diversion of the nearly $6 million a year in revenue generated for the City of Boise by the Boise Police Department at http://www.AbandonMainStreetStation.org

By: The wolf

The wolf — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 22:42:31 +0000

There will be no sitting in the trolley station either.

By: boisecd

boisecd — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 01:50:13 +0000

My teenage son was at the terminal this afternoon, attempting to utilize our public transportation, which he has done since he was 12. He found today that there is a sign taped to the wall indicating that you can’t sit on the floor. Further, when he attempted to use the restroom he found that it was locked and you had to obtain the code from customer service. He had to wait behind others in line at customer service. By the time he got the code, and used the restroom, his bus was pulling away. Rather than wait 30 minutes for the next bus…he walked home 3 miles. C’mon Boise….you can do better than this.

By: Steve Rinehart

Steve Rinehart — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 02:09:21 +0000

Dear Don T T: one thing that distinguishes this website news forum is civility and thoughtfulness. And ocasional humor. If you have something thoughtful to add to the discussion, and can figure out a way to say so civilly, without name-calling, please do so. Thank you.

By: Don Trump Triumphant

Don Trump Triumphant — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 20:10:20 +0000

Aww. Look at all these SJWs b*tching about rules and enforcement of such. Cute. Maybe you should welcome garbage to your neighborhoods. Practice what you preach, hypocrites.

By: Steve Rinehart

Steve Rinehart — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 04:24:44 +0000

Illuminating video. Of course, that is why the bus station workers objected. Holy crap! He’s gonna show people what goes on in here! Are the annoying woman and her plainclothes security guy still working for us? Since we can’t fire them tomorrow, perhaps we could at least give them some training on law and civil behavior.

EDITOR NOTE–They are probably contract employees. That was the case when we got a complaint of a supervisor assaulting an employee over a year ago.

By: Murphy

Murphy — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 00:08:35 +0000

Somebody needs to ask this public servant just who appointed her “GOD”. She needs to find another line of employment.

By: Aggrieved Party

Aggrieved Party — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 16:41:09 +0000

On the bright side, the audio on the video wasn’t being drowned out by F-35 noise.
Something which could only have happened in our newest fallout shelter.
What better place to debate the loss of civil rights (standing and waiting for a bus that never comes) while the half-life of plutonium to burns off?

By: Easterner

Easterner — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 00:16:34 +0000

Bikeboy,
Your point is well taken. It really could be either.

However, given the recent tone of shut down the press, deprive people of their rights, ignore the laws (proven by the courts), acting (tweeting) without thinking, threatening to do something and then not doing it, degrading people of a particular class, and management having a general cluster… who does that remind us of?
A liar or a childish liar?

Being a freak about someone videoing a public area is a lot like Sean Spicer seizing cell phones from White House staff employees…paranoia.
Local VRT management or the White House— a bunch of wackos!

Efficiently and prudently pouring (federal) money into urban transit really is the direction we as a society need to go.
The 2C/1A commuter as it applies to us here, only highlights that point. We have a problem Houston.

Investing in public infrastructure- was one of the messages the other night. That is something we can all support, despite bikeboy tagging it as a liberal program, that is exactly what was promised and might even happen.
We don’t know who is going to pay for it, or how these “new jobs” will work out for police flunkies, and paranoid bus workers, but we can hope:

“I will be asking the Congress to approve legislation that produces a $1 TRILLION investment in infrastructure of the United States financed through both, PUBLIC and private capital,”