Manhattan Development & Aggieville Parking

[star seed 7]

I had a dream about hopping on a moving cable car on campus a few months ago.  TY for making me remember that.

[0.42]

cable car

Removing the electric streetcars from MHK was almost as dumb as deliberately keeping i-70 away from town.

[Skipper44]

cable car

Removing the electric streetcars from MHK was almost as dumb as deliberately keeping i-70 away from town.

idk, I am glad we aren't a Interstate exit town like Lawrence and Columbia.  No LHC Bill Snyder Memorial highway. 

totally agree on the streetcars.  Townies should look at this issue as an opportunity to dictate the locations of the coming student ghettos.

[8manpick]

cable car

Removing the electric streetcars from MHK was almost as dumb as deliberately keeping i-70 away from town.

I am so glad I-70 doesn't go through Manhattan. So glad.

[wabash909]

The City of Manhappiness is adding hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in private capital investment.  BUT Ames has a bus and we can't feel bigtime without one!  JFC, do you guys have any idea how stupid you sound?

I don't know, modern, public transportation is kind of important in most progressive cities that I know of.  Especially, those growing at the rate Manhattan is and with a University that publicly aspires to be a top 50 public institution.

[0.42]

cable car

Removing the electric streetcars from MHK was almost as dumb as deliberately keeping i-70 away from town.

I am so glad I-70 doesn't go through Manhattan. So glad.

I didn't say it should go through town. But ten miles off the interstate was a small timey idea iyam.

[8manpick]

cable car

Removing the electric streetcars from MHK was almost as dumb as deliberately keeping i-70 away from town.

I am so glad I-70 doesn't go through Manhattan. So glad.

I didn't say it should go through town. But ten miles off the interstate was a small timey idea iyam.

I don't want Manhattan to be salina + a college

[Tobias]

I don't want Manhattan to be salina + a college

yes, tread very carefully with this cozy inn crap

[MakeItRain]

Instead of a bus system, I think the University should implement a free bike system in which you check out a bike at one part of campus and then return it at another. The City of Manhattan could then expand this program by installing stations in Aggieville and other major shopping areas. I would use that system, while I probably would never pay a bus fare to get to class at K-State.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_City_Bikes

Im still catching up, but they tried this in Hutchinson and three bikes got stolen on the first day.

[bones129]

Instead of a bus system, I think the University should implement a free bike system in which you check out a bike at one part of campus and then return it at another. The City of Manhattan could then expand this program by installing stations in Aggieville and other major shopping areas. I would use that system, while I probably would never pay a bus fare to get to class at K-State.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_City_Bikes

Im still catching up, but they tried this in Hutchinson and three bikes got stolen on the first day.

Too much crime in Hutch when even bikes  aren't safe. Never thought of Hutch as unsafe until now.

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[sys]

they should do a subsidized, city-run, zipcar-like rental program.  hire like 6 guys to shuttle the cars around and to serve as cheap taxi drivers during alcoholic hours.  plus like one peak hours route of mini-bus shuttles that would also serve to link the car rental lots.

[Havs]

cable car

Removing the electric streetcars from MHK was almost as dumb as deliberately keeping i-70 away from town.

idk, I am glad we aren't a Interstate exit town like Lawrence and Columbia.  No LHC Bill Snyder Memorial highway. 

totally agree on the streetcars.  Townies should look at this issue as an opportunity to dictate the locations of the coming student ghettos.

Or name I-70 as the LHC Bill Snyder Freeway? That would ACTUALLY be elite...

[MakeItRain]

zipcar

Biggest ripoff ever but great business concept. Take advantage of rich white people willing to grossly overpay for a product in an already over saturated market in the name of being trendy.

[sys]

zipcar

Biggest ripoff ever but great business concept. Take advantage of rich white people willing to grossly overpay for a product in an already over saturated market in the name of being trendy.

i dunno what they charge, but the idea makes sense to me for dense urban areas.

[DQ12]

my sister lives carless in downtown chicago and she says she uses zipcars to do grocery shopping type stuff.  makes sense.  can't really bring a whole crap ton of groceries on the train.

kind of makes sense.  i guess she could get a cab

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

The City of Manhappiness is adding hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in private capital investment.  BUT Ames has a bus and we can't feel bigtime without one!  JFC, do you guys have any idea how stupid you sound?

I don't know, modern, public transportation is kind of important in most progressive cities that I know of.  Especially, those growing at the rate Manhattan is and with a University that publicly aspires to be a top 50 public institution.

You should read this out loud so you know what stupid sounds like.

[wabash909]

The City of Manhappiness is adding hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in private capital investment.  BUT Ames has a bus and we can't feel bigtime without one!  JFC, do you guys have any idea how stupid you sound?

I don't know, modern, public transportation is kind of important in most progressive cities that I know of.  Especially, those growing at the rate Manhattan is and with a University that publicly aspires to be a top 50 public institution.

You should read this out loud so you know what stupid sounds like.

Lol.  Public transportation in modern cities is pretty stupid stuff.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

The City of Manhappiness is adding hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in private capital investment.  BUT Ames has a bus and we can't feel bigtime without one!  JFC, do you guys have any idea how stupid you sound?

I don't know, modern, public transportation is kind of important in most progressive cities that I know of.  Especially, those growing at the rate Manhattan is and with a University that publicly aspires to be a top 50 public institution.

You should read this out loud so you know what stupid sounds like.

Lol.  Public transportation in modern cities is pretty stupid stuff.

This too.

You've lost your premise.

[ednksu]

just give up wabash, foxnews has told him public transportation is a tool of the liberal agenda so he can't support it.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

just give up wabash, foxnews has told him public transportation is a tool of the liberal agenda so he can't support it.

That's right, public transportation is the catalyst for growth and development in City's of ~50,000 in size. Manhattan being the anomoly.

Can't have a top 50 research university without buses.

The stupidity is just unfathomable. 

[ednksu]

just give up wabash, foxnews has told him public transportation is a tool of the liberal agenda so he can't support it.

That's right, public transportation is the catalyst for growth and development in City's of ~50,000 in size. Manhattan being the anomoly.

Can't have a top 50 research university without buses.

The stupidity is just unfathomable. 

I don't know what else I can say to keep this kind of posting going.  I mean its just epic.

[wabash909]

just give up wabash, foxnews has told him public transportation is a tool of the liberal agenda so he can't support it.

That's right, public transportation is the catalyst for growth and development in City's of ~50,000 in size. Manhattan being the anomoly.

Can't have a top 50 research university without buses.

The stupidity is just unfathomable. 

Hahaha. Just. Wow.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

just give up wabash, foxnews has told him public transportation is a tool of the liberal agenda so he can't support it.

That's right, public transportation is the catalyst for growth and development in City's of ~50,000 in size. Manhattan being the anomoly.

Can't have a top 50 research university without buses.

The stupidity is just unfathomable. 

Hahaha. Just. Wow.

Also this

[Rage Against the McKee]

i dunno if mhk needs a bus or not.  but i do know that it's hard to get buses right.  i've lived in lots of places with buses where the buses were damn near useless and unused.  fresno is a good example.  there's an fairly extensive bus system that very few people use (myself included).  if you can't run a system where buses come by every 15 minutes or less (maybe 10 or less), you probably don't have enough ridership to justify the route.

i'm going to walk 3 miles to the airport tomorrow, instead of taking the bus.  because it'd take me twice as long to walk to a bus stop, wait for the bus, take it to the transfer, wait for the transfer, then take it to the airport.

If you had a depot where you could check out a bike within a quarter mile of your house, and another depot to return it at the airport, you could make that trip in roughly 10 minutes. I'm not saying that's the solution for Fresno, but it seems like a pretty good idea for smaller communities like Manhattan.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

Good God 

Somebody lock this down, immediately.