Comments on: Charlotte, You Can Keep Your Lousy Streetcar.

By: chira

chira — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:39:35 +0000

Streetcars/LightRail… Waste of $ … ? … Then how come I always WANT to ride the streetcars when I go to New Orleans and San Francisco? The last time I was in NO, I rode the streetcars every day, because I like a restaurant out on River Bend better than its downtown site and the ride out/back is “part of the fun.” I will be in SF in August, and can’t WAIT to jump on the trolleys. The concept(s) would be a winner in Atlanta too. I am especially fond of the idea to route a new line from downtown on Edgewood to the MLK Memorial neighborhood (and beyond, if possible). I will be in Houston this coming weekend and want to take my first ride on their light-rail system too. I am a real fan of public transit, you see, in all shapes and sizes. “Build it and they will come” has a certain amount of validity to it, in my opinion.

By: nelliebelle1197

nelliebelle1197 — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:01:06 +0000

That goes without saying. karass!!

I just don’t see the need hurt people’s feelings.

By: Davo

Davo — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:55:18 +0000

By: karass

karass — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:26:43 +0000

Unless the error is funny, then can we comment?

By: nelliebelle1197

nelliebelle1197 — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:30:53 +0000

The blog grammar police on here are the ones who need to chill. No one is getting graded on posts, and I frankly think it’s pretty damn rude to pick on sentence structure, typos and errors in this context. It’s one thing to complain about stupidity like the apostrophe on the market signs- someone paid for and printed up those signs for public display. They should have carefully proofed by someone somewhere. It’s another to snidely attempt to point out the errors of others. I think smalltowngal and others who practice this are rude- it’s one thing to heatedly argue a belief or a point. It’s quite another to needlessly criticize someone for a grammar error in this type of forum.