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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