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    <author><![CDATA[paul hammond]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Robo, GRTC needs a smart phone app. The do have this online trip planner.<br>
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<a href="http://www.ridegrtc.com/TripPlanner.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.ridegrtc.com/TripPlanner.aspx</a><br>
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      <![CDATA[Don, the suburbs are not going away. They can a should be incorporated into a mass transit solution.
        
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      <![CDATA[Great idea, wish it would happen. <br>
I recall as a child regularly taking a bus downtown from Northside.<br>
The current bus system could be 100% improved if they would post the times the bus comes to a stop, publish the stops it makes along it's route, how long it takes to get to the stops in front of where one embarks, and how long the bus runs (e.g. first one in the moring and last in the evening).
        
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      <![CDATA[I disagree that bus routes should match current population centers outside of the city's urban areas. It would essentially be encouraging and legitimizing sprawl rather than planning for a more densely populated, geographically limited future for our city.
        
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      <![CDATA[wow. i just read this story about henrico's 1/2 billion $ toll road (895) which isn't being used enough.
        
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      <![CDATA[The best way to help the poor of Richmond is to create more jobs n the city--not bus people way out Broad or Hull Streets to minimum-wage retail jobs. That said, I would support a modest expansion of the bus line to surburban areas if there was research showing that the routes would have strong ridership.
        
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      <![CDATA[srsly,<br>
   Yes. Yes.
        
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      <![CDATA["there is more poverty in the suburbs than in the City. "<br>
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No, there is less.
        
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      <![CDATA[FINALLY a conversation is starting about public transportation in RVA. <br>
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I've been here for 12 years, after moving from a region that has managed to keep a massive public transportation system-set running for decades (NY/NJ/CT, aka the Tri-State Area) in spite of the fact that there are cities, counties, townships, and states involved in the planning and running thereof.<br>
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I do believe that the lack of public transit in the RVA region is a direct descendant of Jim Crow.
        
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      <![CDATA[But to suggest that the "autos-only approach has kept POOR people out of the counties" is rhetorically false, because as you admit, there is more poverty in the suburbs than in the City. <br>
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      <![CDATA[Rick James: "While the per capita rate of poverty is significantly higher in the City, the counties actually have more people living in poverty. "<br>
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Well the USA has more people living in poverty than Chesterfield and Henrico so therefore they are elite like I first stated ;-)<br>
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Yes the counties of the region may have an absolutely higher number of residents living in poverty, but they also have more than six times the population of the city.
        
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      <![CDATA[Unfortunately it will never happen. The counties won't let it.
        
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      <![CDATA[Nice work Rev Campbell. A decent bus systems makes sense for county residents as well as city dwellers.
        
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      <![CDATA[My wife and I have been, for year, trying to persuade GRTC to add a line from our neighborhood of Woodland Heights, which sits on the river across from downtown, to VCU. GRTC has not listened.
        
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      <![CDATA[Wrong. <br>
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While the per capita rate of poverty is significantly higher in the City, the counties actually have more people living in poverty.
        
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      <![CDATA[St George Pinckney- I didn't mention the racial aspect of the article because if that was really the point of keeping transit out of the county, it is a failed policy. Henrico's population is 24% African American and Chesterfield's is 33% African American.
        
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      <![CDATA["So you could say that the absence of public transportation in metro Richmond is a brutal artifact of Virginia's segregationist government in the middle of the 20th century. And you'd be right.
        
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      <![CDATA[Agree with RIchmond Traction Co. Motorman.<br>
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Here is a comment I posted earlier on another site.<br>
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http://rvanews.com/news/lack-of-donations-shuts-down-this-weekends-to-the-bottom-and-back-service/64000#comments<br>
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Folks, I am serving as a volunteer on City Council’s GRTC Task Force (yes, I am a glutton for punishment). I am commenting here because I want people to know what is going on- but first a bit about GRTC…<br>
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GRTC (Greater Richmond Transit Company) is a nonprofit corporation mostly supported financially by the City.
        
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      <![CDATA[This is a great commentary on transit. However in my opinion you are wasting your time thinking of regional localities as a "we."
        
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      <![CDATA[This is amazing! Light rail would be great, but it seems an easy fix to just send the buses to the places where the jobs are.<br>
How could anyone be against public transportation.
        
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