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CliffDweller on September 11, 2006 - 2:00pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Not to take the thread too far off it's original point, but, you're right, there are other issues facing LI that are as serious as the transportation situation. Energy policy is completely screwed up, for example. The post on housing prices hits very close to home (no pun intended). There is no affordable housing. School budgets continue to climb.

Speaking as a Long Islander, I'd say we're like deer caught in the headlights. Few people seem willing or smart enough to start taking the steps to save ourselves. Instead, we fall back on survival instincts, trying to protect our own little pieces of turf.

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Valuethinker on September 11, 2006 - 4:09pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I was specifically thinking about the desirability of moving/ not moving from LI.

I loved the movie 'Simple Men', which was set in LI.  Then I found out it was actually filmed in Dallas! ;-).

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CliffDweller on September 12, 2006 - 12:52am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I haven't seen "Simple Men", but it's a little ironic that I'm considering a move to Texas (near Dallas). I read some reviews of "Simple Men" and I'm trying to figure out how they managed to film it in TX, unless it was all interior shots. Guess I'll have to see it.

Anyone...feel free to try and talk me out of it (moving to TX, that is). I don't really want to give up on LI.  

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NWPETA on September 12, 2006 - 7:18pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
There are really only two cities in Texas. Dallas: and Houston:
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CliffDweller on September 13, 2006 - 10:57am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I've done some "scouting" in the northeast Dallas area and saw the DART (althought I didn't get the chance to ride it). Considering their expansion plan, it looks very impressive, although I was told that the Trinity Express to Ft. Worth is very under-utilized (perhaps unnecessary?).

You can't beat the fares, at least compared to NYC/LI.

I wonder how "long" the DART planners' vision is. As some point, I think the needs develops to travel around the ring, rather than in and out of it.

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NWPETA on September 13, 2006 - 12:04pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
You saw the Garland line, which opened in 2002.  It's supposed to be extended several miles to Rowlett in 2012.

The 27½-mile southeast-northeast line opens in 2010.  Another northwest line, actually west-northwest, should start running in 2011 and be completed in 2013.  

I don't know of any city that has a regional peripheral rail transit line.  Certainly not New York, Chicago or LA.  The only place I can think of where something like this is being built is the Petite Ceinture tramway around Paris.  The French are further ahead than anyone on transit development.

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crzwdjk on September 13, 2006 - 10:02pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
London has the North London Line which, while not technically rapid transit, has a level of service close to it with electric commuter trains running every 15 minutes or so. LA has a "suburb to suburb" commuter rail line, the Inland Empire-Orange County line of Metrolink, which is reasonably popular, for a commuter rail line anyway. And Washington is looking to build a suburb to suburb link between two rapid transit lines. And LA also has the Green Line, which is a fully grade separated rail line going from Norwalk to Redondo Beach, not passing through downtown, so I guess that can count as peripheral too.
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