MHF Canard: Light-Rail Will Expand Mobility

Light-rail reduces mobility because:

1. the costs for subsidizing rail cannibalize funds that would be used for building new highways and widening streets (i.e., transportation infrastructure the people actually want to use) which makes streets and highways even more congested
2. based on national experience, light-rail cannot be expected to increase transit ridership more than 2%, which means that the reduction of automobiles cannot be less than 2%

Moving Hillsborough Forward's website makes ridiculous claims on about how light-rail will support “on the go lifestyles.” Yeah, right. Way to have an “on the go lifestyle”.

Imagine your “on the go” commute to, say, take your kids to the dentist. Walk to the bus stop and wait for awhile for the bus. (Hopefully it is not raining.) Ride to the bus train station and wait for awhile for the train. (Assuming that you only need one bus connection to make it to the train.) Board the train and ride to the destination train station at the national average speed of 20MPH ¹
. Wait awhile for the bus. Ride the bus to your destination. Now imagine your joy at the thought of making the return trip. Or using this system to bring back an armload of stuff from the hardware store.

And the Moving Hillsborough Forward crowd calls this mobility? Hah!