what if all my ideas were awesome?

jweede:

Shared by Jon
Sometimes I think Hamilton County should be subdivided right along I-75. If not for the anti-public transit west-side votes, we would have a working light-rail system in cincinnati…

Okay, seriously?

I say let it die. Maybe I’m shooting myself in the foot here by endorsing a viewpoint that’s going to make Cincinnati worse for the wear while I’m pretty much stuck here for the better part of the next four and a half years…

But honestly? Let the transit/light rail plan die. And when older Cincinnatians, particularly the West Siders who have habitually voted this project down, are having a hard time attracting people for jobs at Kroger or P&G or Great American while simultaneously dealing with increasing gas prices and commute times, they’ll know it was their fault. And they’ll bear the consequences by being stuck in a city that’s continuing to die.

Because guess what? A good portion of the UC alums and Cincy natives will have moved to the coasts—we will have already planned for these inevitabilities and chosen our new urban homes accordingly. In New York/San Francisco/Boston/Seattle, I can have a car if I feel like it…but if I choose not to, I’m not going to be held prisoner to an antiquated paradigm that can barely be called a “transit system”.

In short, none of us who care about public transit are going to be around long enough to see this work out anyway—we will have fled to a place where it’s already extant and viable. Am I right?