have you ever had any fun for even a day in your life?

Show me a study that proves that simply building a streetcar system in a city comparable to Columbus and doing absolutely nothing else accomplishes what you claim it will, and I'll read it, because it's a slow day at work.

I'd like to stipulate similar economic conditions, but I can't, seeing as how enormously fucked the economy is right now.

Imagine this world:
"Hey everybody, let's hop the train down to city center and grab a slice of Sbarro!"

sorry to break the news to ya, bro.....

you, like everyone else here, are just some fucking guy on a message board.

keep enlightening us with yourself, though, please.

well, wouldn't the opposing side be the ones responsible to bring the support for their argument...not me?

well, you're more than welcome to address ANY of the "in the trenches" points made by myself above, on what benefits the city's pet projects really mean to the high-street-business-owner.

since the time that i first signed my lease, only THREE businesses on my old block survived, and two of them were the plasma center and the family dollar. (cheers to byzantium!) and the only one that made it past when i closed, was little brothers, and they were shut down less than a year later by the EXACT same rent games that're gonna be a part of this "development" that comes with your train . . .