To: jgrove24@hotmail.com   
      
   * In a message originally to Allen Prunty, JG said:   
      
    J> Use the $50 Million as an endowment on Express Buses. I rekkin the   
    J> freeways have adjoining commercial parking lots that can be used for   
    J> park-N-ride. Lease 10-20 buses, the fancy coach types and run it for 2-3   
    J> years to get a sense of ridership.   
    J> The buses can circulate in areas to drop/pick up. Trains can't do that.   
    J> Rail is so last century.   
      
   Actually studies have been done that would be much more efficient with   
   light rail... since the route will go directly through existing tracks   
   in Fort Knox.  As it is, all the major highways have to GO AROUND ft.   
   knox but having the rail it could speed through, stop in the center   
   giving veterans access to much needed medical services on post, and   
   then continue to Elizabethtown.  The route would span close to 220   
   miles back and forth counting going up into Indiana.   
      
   Bus service here in Louisville is abysmal.... our highways are poorly   
   designed and there is little park and ride areas.  A central station   
   downtown could route from the Indiana / east Louisville / west   
   Louisville and South Louisville (downtown is the most northern part)   
   and feed off.  The large train stop areas could be served by regional   
   buses.  Etown is it's own city with it's own tax base.  Louisville is   
   it's own city with a conglomeration of smaller surrounding cities.   
      
   This could benefit the state and would eventually add a route to   
   Frankfort (the state capital) which is about 170 miles away from   
   Louisville,  Georgetown KY (toyota is very interested in this route   
   since they bus workers from Louisville and LExington to their Camry   
   plant) it would get their workers there quicker and connect the three   
   major metro cities together eventually.... Louisville, Lexington and   
   Covington (which is across the river from Cincinnatti)   
      
   Allen   
      
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