ToadScoper OP t1_itv8u2v wrote on October 26, 2022 at 3:42 PM

Reply to comment by pico-pico-hammer in Remember when RI spent millions on an MBTA station with no transit-oriented development or ridership base? by ToadScoper

RI must expand and transform its transit, it’s ridiculous that for being the densest state it completely lacks its own regional rail, water taxis, or even an LRT. RI has huge potential for all these modes of transit but it refuses to consider or subsidize them

Proof-Variation7005 t1_itvgp3x wrote on October 26, 2022 at 4:34 PM

I think all of those things should be better, but it's not like we have unlimited resources to add/improve that stuff. Those things would cost a LOT of money and I'm not sure there's just a pile of extra cash in the state budget to subsidize it.

Trying to convince the public to increase taxes to cover those costs would be political suicide.