Comments on: Cut off from the world, a liveblog http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/09/10/cut-off-from-the-world-a-liveblog/ Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:23:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Tom Bazan http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/09/10/cut-off-from-the-world-a-liveblog/comment-page-1/#comment-3407 Tom Bazan Mon, 11 Sep 2006 02:10:47 +0000 http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/09/10/cut-off-from-the-world-a-liveblog/#comment-3407 A perfect example of the Mobility problem in Houston. Without an active cell phone you are forced to use an instrument "tethered" by wire to the building. ERGO, NO MOBILITY. In a like manner, millions of Houstonians who rely on rubber-tired mobility, are being shortchanged by METRO as a result of the diversion of over a 1/2-billion dollars of precious taxpayers' funds on an ill-devised tram, which is tethered to a sparking wire. What is worse, METRO wants to squander billions more in taxpayer-obligated bonds to build more boondogle urban rail, which will also be unsafe, unreliable, and underutilized, which too will be thethered to a sparking wire. A perfect example of the Mobility problem in Houston.

Without an active cell phone you are forced to use an instrument “tethered” by wire to the building. ERGO, NO MOBILITY.

In a like manner, millions of Houstonians who rely on rubber-tired mobility, are being shortchanged by METRO as a result of the diversion of over a 1/2-billion dollars of precious taxpayers’ funds on an ill-devised tram, which is tethered to a sparking wire. What is worse, METRO wants to squander billions more in taxpayer-obligated bonds to build more boondogle urban rail, which will also be unsafe, unreliable, and underutilized, which too will be thethered to a sparking wire.

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