What does $70 million buy?
From:
Charlie Swope
Date:
May 11 01:05 UTC
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Good post Kelly. With the price of oil going up with no end in sight, it's the
height of foolishness to oppose LRT. I can see criticizing the details; how
many stops, etc., but it's so clear we need this project.
Charlie
--- On Sat, 5/10/08, Grace Kelly (nicknamed Kelly)
<saintcurmudgeon@earthlink.net> wrote:
> From: Grace Kelly (nicknamed Kelly) <saintcurmudgeon@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [SPIF] What does $70 million buy?
> To: "St. Paul Issues Forum" <stpaul-issues@forums.e-democracy.org>
> Date: Saturday, May 10, 2008, 6:18 PM
> What 70 million dollars buy?
>
> A central corridor project with an additional $450 million
> of federal funds that will not be spent destroying a
> foreign country, and which will also stimulate the economy
> with the local jobs effects that we all hope for.
>
> In a few years, I can take a two $2.50 rides instead of
> paying for a half gallon of gas (probably $4.00) and
> paying for parking ($6.00). If I can do that 300 days a
> year, that is $1500 tax free dollars in my pocket, the
> equivalent of a $3000 raise.
>
> Is that dollars and *sense* enough?
>
> Otherwise we can take the Republican solution and promise
> to something about the cost of transportation by 2050, when
> all current politicians are out of office.
>
> Grace Kelly nicknamed Kelly
> Wet curmudgeon in Merriam Park
>
>
> Grace (nicknamed Kelly) Kelly
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