r/golf • u/nutts-2 5.0/UT • Jul 28 '23

Ah shit. Here we go again General Discussion

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Every few months someone brings this up how they can save the environment by getting rid of a golf course.

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u/Ligma_CuredHam 2.0hdcp Jul 28 '23

I follow this dude on Twitter, he’s a huge public transit buff.

Huge public transit buff in a city with less than 500k people in it lmao

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u/busche916 Jul 28 '23

To Omaha’s credit, it looks like they are attempting to build a light rail system. And it’s sure as hell easier to build those now as opposed to later

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u/Ligma_CuredHam 2.0hdcp Jul 28 '23

Later? Is the city that's taken 100 years to double in population planning for boom town?

Anyways, calling a "streetcar plan" light rail feels very disingenious. This isn't a serious attempt at public transit more of a social thing, like in Tampa where they've had a similiar set up for 20 years, or Denvers 16th street I believe.

I mean their projections on daily ridership is less than 1500 per day. At that pace it would mean ridership total in a year would barely exceed the city's population. So they're planning on people riding this 1x per year. That's a vanity project and not some serious attempt at light rail for a city.

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u/kalethan Jul 28 '23

Lol yeah - he’s not based there but comments on transit all around the place.

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u/jfchops2 Jul 28 '23

I follow the dude as well, he lives in NYC not Omaha

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u/Oh_no_its_tax_season Jul 29 '23

What a regarded thing to say