Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:15:54 -0400
From: Laura Young
Subject: mass transit
Whenever a debate about funding mass transit comes up, there are many who do not want to spend the money because the numbers do not justify the expense. I would hope that we consider the monetary cost of not having a mass transit system. In addition to previously mentioned factors-traffic, the environment, global warming pollution.., what did it cost the taxpayers to widen 15-501 between Pittsboro and Chapel Hill? What was the cost to the people who live on the 15-501 corridor and lost their home or a part of their homeplace and its value because of the widening. The cost of doing nothing is not always nothing.
Just a thought from one who avoids driving on 15-501, but paid for it in taxes so that others could.
Laura