I attended the meeting. Very, very little attendance by the public. Very little opportunity for input from attendees other than to submit a CATS survey questionnaire. One gentlemen tried to ask a question at the end of the presentation and was told to put his question on the survey questionnaire. The whole meeting boiled down to a sale pitch by CATS on their four transportation scenarios. Kind of like the doting mother telling her child here are your choices- take it or leave it. Garland Green - Charlotte, NC
Why didn't you guys as independent reporters ask harder questions?? These trains are a huge boondoggle that never seems to go away - wasting Billions and Billions of our citizen dollars... Actual use by riders, consistently over time is apparently paltry - at best!
So, why is it still alive?? Hopefully we citizens will (politely) pressure the politicians...Hopefully
To be clear, these are questions asked by residents in public forums — these are not our questions. (Reporters don't ask questions in public forums, traditionally.) We ask a lot of questions of CATS and elected officials and try to unearth facts and information that haven't come to light.
I don’r see the business sense in CATS.
If it isn’t self supporting, thot means there’s not a market for it or it needs to be managed by an institution that will make it self supporting.
No more big government money laundering schemes funneling our tax money to local to Democrats and Democrat clients.
Community is built by people and not by government.
I attended the meeting. Very, very little attendance by the public. Very little opportunity for input from attendees other than to submit a CATS survey questionnaire. One gentlemen tried to ask a question at the end of the presentation and was told to put his question on the survey questionnaire. The whole meeting boiled down to a sale pitch by CATS on their four transportation scenarios. Kind of like the doting mother telling her child here are your choices- take it or leave it. Garland Green - Charlotte, NC
Why didn't you guys as independent reporters ask harder questions?? These trains are a huge boondoggle that never seems to go away - wasting Billions and Billions of our citizen dollars... Actual use by riders, consistently over time is apparently paltry - at best!
So, why is it still alive?? Hopefully we citizens will (politely) pressure the politicians...Hopefully
To be clear, these are questions asked by residents in public forums — these are not our questions. (Reporters don't ask questions in public forums, traditionally.) We ask a lot of questions of CATS and elected officials and try to unearth facts and information that haven't come to light.