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- From: vaughnw@hadar.fai.com (Vaughn Wolffe)
- Subject: Re: CalTrain Article
- Message-ID: <C1DHDH.7xn@news.fai.com>
- Originator: vaughnw@cotati
- Sender: vaughnw@hadar (Vaughn Wolffe)
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- Organization: Fujitsu NTS
- Distribution: ba
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:12:53 GMT
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- >Instead of complaining about how much BART costs and how much better
- >and cheaper Caltrain is--and blaming the difference on
- >'salesmanship'--wouldn't it be more effective to learn to sell
- >CalTrain as effectively? Perhaps BARt has found *effective* ways to
- >sell itself to commuters that CalTrain has (virtuously) avoided. If
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- I think you are right. All CalTrain has to do is make a bunch of
- promises that it can't keep but that people believe are doable.
- Obviously people will pay more for image than substance, so CalTrain
- should tell them want they want to hear.
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- >CDC or any of the other '7 dwarfs'. If CalTrain is so great--why
- >isn't it successful? "Politcs" is a damn poor answer. You can blame
- >*anything* on it--especially failure. The answer to politcs is to
- >politic better than the other guy--and (from your response) it appears
- >>that that's just what CalTrain has signally *failed* to do. (And
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- "Politics" in this case means to promote something that cost more
- even though it has less potential. The main thrust of transportation
- planning is to spend as much money as possible so as to buy as many
- votes(jobs) as possible. So picking the least efficient mode is the
- best way to spread the pork. It doesn't matter if it is road or
- rail. The most expensive wins. Out politicing BART would simply
- give us a system that does not do what we need in a time frame
- that would allow us to retain the economic viability of the region.
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- Vaughn Wolffe vaughnw@hadar.fai.com
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