The Bradley Center and the Midwest Express Center draw so many people downtown, and it would seem that offering safe, fast and comfortable transportation to and from their homes, downtown restaurants, shopping and entertainment would be very well-received. A station at the new Brewers ballpark would be a natural. DART took an entire elementary school on an outing to the zoo. People don't ride buses. A bus winds all over town, and sometimes you even have to change buses before you get to where you want to go.
Light rail offers a direct route.
If Texans can give up their cars and use the light rail, anybody can. Taxpayers unwilling to fund system After reading the March 15 article by Tom Held regarding Milwaukee County Executive F. Thomas Ament's proposal to impose a new fuel tax to support a bus system, I could not help but wonder if this tax might just be another way to subsidize Mayor John Norquist's addiction to light rail. They could set them up around their desks and play all day. In the long run, the taxpayers would be happy and so would Ament and Norquist. All rights reserved.