Comments on: Charlotte http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/05/06/charlotte/ The Oklahoman's Steve Lackmeyer covers downtown brick by brick Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:16:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Mass transit…. http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/05/06/charlotte/comment-page-1/#comment-201 Mass transit…. Wed, 07 May 2008 03:09:54 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/05/06/charlotte/#comment-201 [...] good friend Steve Lackmeyer brings up an interesting topic on his blog over at the NewsOK, the Web site of my former employer, The Oklahoman. The Lackman [...] [...] good friend Steve Lackmeyer brings up an interesting topic on his blog over at the NewsOK, the Web site of my former employer, The Oklahoman. The Lackman [...]

]]> By: Ryan McNeill http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/05/06/charlotte/comment-page-1/#comment-202 Ryan McNeill Wed, 07 May 2008 02:13:38 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/05/06/charlotte/#comment-202 This is pretty interesting. I was in Charlotte a few years back for a journalism conference. It's quite a nice place. Here in South Florida, the mass transit is pretty ... well... non-existent...especially for an area of something like 6 million folks. We have Tri-Rail, which runs from Palm Beach County through Broward and Miami-Dade counties. But when I say run, I really mean it's a single north-south route. That's right --- no east-west. Except in Miami, where they have a separate line you can board, but it's a dump and the cars are way past their prime. This is pretty interesting. I was in Charlotte a few years back for a journalism conference.

It’s quite a nice place.

Here in South Florida, the mass transit is pretty … well… non-existent…especially for an area of something like 6 million folks.

We have Tri-Rail, which runs from Palm Beach County through Broward and Miami-Dade counties. But when I say run, I really mean it’s a single north-south route.

That’s right — no east-west. Except in Miami, where they have a separate line you can board, but it’s a dump and the cars are way past their prime.

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