Comments on: What’s the Big Picture at HRT?

By: Brian Kirwin

Brian Kirwin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:54:55 +0000

No, Henry. It’s not that simple. Companies like mine exist not because people don’t know the advantages of something. Companies like mine exist because too often people oversell something and highlight the wrong advantages.

By: Henry Ryto

Henry Ryto — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:35:19 +0000

Brian,

If all things advantages were so self-evident, companies like the one you work for would have no reason to exist.

By: Brian Kirwin

Brian Kirwin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:54:06 +0000

oops, “thinks” should be “things”

By: Brian Kirwin

Brian Kirwin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:53:22 +0000

Unfortunately, if they let you communicate the message, we won’t need mass transit, because people would sleep right through their alarm clocks.

See, Eileen. When you attack people and thinks, you do a much better job. When you try to convey a positive message, you’re so ill-equipped to do so effectively, that it drags on and on like a bad 70s song.

Light rail’s benefits should be self-evident. If they aren’t, that should tell you something. But I’ll tell you one thing – if the project’s Norfolk issues aren’t turned around, it could take you to Mars and Beach voters will object to it.

By: Henry Ryto

Henry Ryto — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:48:06 +0000

The ugly truth: I don’t think theie is an unified big picture at HRT. Shucet had only been there a few weeks when we had our roundtable, and that largely had focused on getting LRT under control. Even if we build a regional LRT system, most passengers will still move by bus.

Michael Townes might have known where he wanted to go, but never put it into a single statement. The last TDCHR Retreat (1 1/2 days in November, 2008) wasn’t even attended by the majority of Commissioners.

Therefore, with the job now apparently Shucet’s for at least the next 18 months, the TDCHR needs a well-attended Retreat later this year.