Saturday, May 9, 2009

Newspaper comments

I've got some Google news feeds set up, for Central Corridor, and the Southwest Corridor. Of course a lot of these are newspaper articles, and these newspaper articles have comments sections. Now I don't know why, but it seems to me that newspaper article comments bring out either the worst people, or just the worst in normal people. Replying and pointing out how wrong people are usually isn't very effective, and not nearly as fun as poking fun at them in an environment where people agree with me. Now I'm hoping to do this from time to time, to amuse myself and let off some steam. So here's what I've found today:

University Av. stores look ahead to LRT parking loss
This is a perfectly legitimate story about parking concerns along the Central Corridor line. There's a lot of debate about this line, and not just along the lines of pro transit vs pro road. But this cracks me up for some reason:
Most merchants along the route fear lost business starting next year. Why was this LIGHT RAIL ROUTE ever approved to go down University Ave? Somebody must be making money off this route or it would have been moved to a different street, highway or rail track.
Yes, why indeed was this LIGHT RAIL ROUTE (emphasis most definitely not mine) approved?