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Maybe cause you live in the ing ghettos?
there are no light rail options.
the via buses are . always late and takes way too much time to be feasible.
everything in san antonio requires that you drive to it.
why is nothing here "walkable"?
is this why san antonio is fat or is san antonio too fat to even consider walking?
Maybe cause you live in the ing ghettos?
It's going to change soon. (I hope)
http://smartwaysa.com/
http://www.viabrt.net/Content/BRTMain.aspx
http://sa2020.org/
because San Antonio is not downtown oriented.
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Because all of the times that something like a lightrail system showed up on a ballot, people were too short-sighted to want to dedicate any of their tax money to it.
I live in Santa Fe (pop. about 60,000), where we have a train that goes between here and Albuquerque (pop. about 530,000) on a daily basis for commuters and tourists. SA and Austin, which are a lot bigger (and I-35 is a veritable cluster ) have needed something like that for a LONG FREAKING TIME.
This. I guess it's also the reason why San Antonio is always tops in the nation in DWI arrests.
Because nine months out of the year it's too damn hot to walk.
because you're a ing loser if you need to take a bus or train to get around town
in Dallas we have the DARTRail but it might as well be called the NigRail
Pretty much this. Plus the commerce in San Antonio is spread over a wide, WIDE area. The town is too big for standard options of public transport (walking, biking) and the city hasn't been able to fund a rail project which, once again, would have a hard time covering all the needed areas. That just leaves via via, and the bus is always a pain in the ass.
When I was in San Antonio, I dated who girl who also resided in San Antonio, but lived like 50 minutes away. That is a ridiculous distance considering we both wrote the same damn city on all of our envelopes. Simply a matter of too much ground to cover.
I wish Austin voters were "shortsighted" like that. Cap Metro spent $150 million on a rail system that now carries about 1,000 people a day. It's a complete disaster. Light rail as a concept is one thing, but it's all about the application. No light rail is far, far better than poorly implemented light rail.
The Austin light rail was poorly designed as well. They should have built an Airport to downtown rail and a North/South Austin light rail to replace the #1 bus line. Instead they built a "commuter rail" from Leander to Downtown skipping the airport. Business went against the rail saying the temporary closers would kill their bottom line.
SA is to much of an urban sprawl for light rail. They need to fight Leon Valley and build a highway overpass on Bandera road from 410 through 1604, imminent domain 1604 and expand that to 5 lanes on each side, and build an overpass on 183 from 1604 through Blanco Tx.
Because most of the development that went into San Antonio did not happen prior to WW2. Everything out west that has developed in the past 50 years is the same way. Well, maybe except a place like Portland but Portland is also very progressive.
If you live near downtown in SA you can get around without a car all the time, however.
Not going to help and its going to cost a load of money. San Antonio needs to start thinking vertically and stop moving out. So much damn sprawl in that city and yet there's even a ton of open space close to downtown.
We can pray.
that would be awesome if it ever happened.
but it won't. Chacho's would complain too much about losing business and Leon Valley cops would write a million fewer red light tickets.
Yea, Manny but there is still no grocery store downtown in San Antonio. That is some redneck , aint it? Metro of 2 million and no place to buy groceries downtown...
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Does Austin have light rail?
There are no Barnes and Nobel stores on the south side of SA.
Hmmmm. Maybe demand for light rail is low in SA.
So basically the ignorant white guys and the wanna be cowboy mexicans are so insecure that they need to keep each having their very own F350 Diesel with no concern to the environment and the air they continue to pollute
If that is you in the photo and if those things are real-then you should never-ever have to walk anywhere.
There working on it.
It's the damned southside city council members who kill any progressive initiative introduced in city council. They cry about any project not taking place in their districts and keep us from moving forward like a city our size should. Look at the poor decision for the placement of the AT&T Center.... brought to you by your backwards council members! As long as San Antonio keeps electing these diabetic Mexican ers with the poor me, handout at ude then we are going to continue to have the development prowess of a Mexican border city. the south side!
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