Comments on: Commentary: Train stations, reflections and the Midwest http://blogs.csbj.com/csbjdaily/2008/07/03/commentary-train-stations-reflections-and-the-midwest/ Colorado Springs Business Journal Daily News Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:35:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Lon Matejczyk http://blogs.csbj.com/csbjdaily/2008/07/03/commentary-train-stations-reflections-and-the-midwest/#comment-2008 Lon Matejczyk Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:06:09 +0000 http://blogs.csbj.com/csbjdaily/2008/07/03/commentary-train-stations-reflections-and-the-midwest/#comment-2008 Thanks all for the feedback. yes, the development that is going on in South Denver is tremendous. Right next to the train platforms. Condos and cranes everywhere. i sure wish i could take a train form Monument. I will have to try Frex...on a day I won't need a car. David, what is the connection? Thanks all for the feedback. yes, the development that is going on in South Denver is tremendous. Right next to the train platforms. Condos and cranes everywhere. i sure wish i could take a train form Monument. I will have to try Frex…on a day I won’t need a car.

David, what is the connection?

]]> By: David Matejczyk http://blogs.csbj.com/csbjdaily/2008/07/03/commentary-train-stations-reflections-and-the-midwest/#comment-1946 David Matejczyk Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:03:43 +0000 http://blogs.csbj.com/csbjdaily/2008/07/03/commentary-train-stations-reflections-and-the-midwest/#comment-1946 Lon: I enjoyed the reflections on your trip. I too am a fan of the trains. They work if the schedule is done right and the stations are placed in the proper locales. This summer, my family is taking the VIA rail again in Canada. Spacious cars and beautiful sites. Also, as Chicago being the “old country,” I enjoyed a train ride in the real old country years ago on my honeymoon. We rode to the birthplace of your Great Great Grandfather! Regards, David Matejczyk (a cousin!). Lon:

I enjoyed the reflections on your trip.

I too am a fan of the trains. They work if the schedule is done right and the stations are placed in the proper locales.

This summer, my family is taking the VIA rail again in Canada. Spacious cars and beautiful sites.
Also, as Chicago being the “old country,” I enjoyed a train ride in the real old country years ago on my honeymoon. We rode to the birthplace of your Great Great Grandfather!

Regards,
David Matejczyk (a cousin!).

]]> By: Joanne Peterson http://blogs.csbj.com/csbjdaily/2008/07/03/commentary-train-stations-reflections-and-the-midwest/#comment-1929 Joanne Peterson Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:17:32 +0000 http://blogs.csbj.com/csbjdaily/2008/07/03/commentary-train-stations-reflections-and-the-midwest/#comment-1929 I agree, this is a nice piece! I just returned from Philadelphia and New Jersey where you literally do not need a car to get around. The train runs right through the Philadelphia airport. I can get all the way home to South Jersey on train OR bus along whose stations are those condos and movie theaters and shopping et al. Please don't stop reflecting. There just may enough Metro and Frexers to promoted getting it done. Not City Council who dismissed the bus terminal location to be immediately adjacent to the train tracks. I am paraphrasing the mayor who said passenger rail service was not in the future. I agree, this is a nice piece! I just returned from Philadelphia and New Jersey where you literally do not need a car to get around. The train runs right through the Philadelphia airport. I can get all the way home to South Jersey on train OR bus along whose stations are those condos and movie theaters and shopping et al.

Please don’t stop reflecting. There just may enough Metro and Frexers to promoted getting it done. Not City Council who dismissed the bus terminal location to be immediately adjacent to the train tracks. I am paraphrasing the mayor who said passenger rail service was not in the future.

]]> By: Bob Stovall http://blogs.csbj.com/csbjdaily/2008/07/03/commentary-train-stations-reflections-and-the-midwest/#comment-1917 Bob Stovall Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:28:33 +0000 http://blogs.csbj.com/csbjdaily/2008/07/03/commentary-train-stations-reflections-and-the-midwest/#comment-1917 Oh, Rosanne, you silly girl. Lon doesn't ride trains, he just writes about them. As Stephen points out, you can ride from point A to point B, but you are probably going to need access to personal transportation, i.e. car rented, owned or borrowed, to get to your final destination. The trains Lon talks about are best for commuter type movements when the train goes where people are going. Cross-country train travel may grow as flying becomes more costly and unpleasant. By the way, Lon, if you go to Denver you can see development starting to come up around the light rail system. On a snowy or heavy traffic day get off and take the train from Lincoln Avenue into town. It's a good way to save twenty miles of driving to get downtown. The cost is probably less than driving and parking thses days. Oh, Rosanne, you silly girl. Lon doesn’t ride trains, he just writes about them. As Stephen points out, you can ride from point A to point B, but you are probably going to need access to personal transportation, i.e. car rented, owned or borrowed, to get to your final destination.
The trains Lon talks about are best for commuter type movements when the train goes where people are going. Cross-country train travel may grow as flying becomes more costly and unpleasant.
By the way, Lon, if you go to Denver you can see development starting to come up around the light rail system. On a snowy or heavy traffic day get off and take the train from Lincoln Avenue into town. It’s a good way to save twenty miles of driving to get downtown. The cost is probably less than driving and parking thses days.

]]> By: Stephen Eckstone http://blogs.csbj.com/csbjdaily/2008/07/03/commentary-train-stations-reflections-and-the-midwest/#comment-1916 Stephen Eckstone Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:47:32 +0000 http://blogs.csbj.com/csbjdaily/2008/07/03/commentary-train-stations-reflections-and-the-midwest/#comment-1916 Lon, enjoyed your article..always good to find a publisher who can write well. I also thought you had taken the train, but agree with Rosanne above that you must be driving. I take the train from our home in San Jose, CA, to our ranch in Lake George every year and it is always a treat. The bad news is that the train stops in Denver (or requires a transfer to a bus). The station is downtown--away from rental cars and usually arrives too late anyway. It is just silly that Amtrak can't get a passenger train from Denver to the Springs, or from Albuquerque/Raton for those who travel the southern route. And while I am complaining...what ever happened to the train that once ran up through the Ute Pass? Don't "they" know there are people up there? Enjoy your travels. SDE Lon, enjoyed your article..always good to find a publisher who can write well. I also thought you had taken the train, but agree with Rosanne above that you must be driving.
I take the train from our home in San Jose, CA, to our ranch in Lake George every year and it is always a treat. The bad news is that the train stops in Denver (or requires a transfer to a bus). The station is downtown–away from rental cars and usually arrives too late anyway.
It is just silly that Amtrak can’t get a passenger train from Denver to the Springs, or from Albuquerque/Raton for those who travel the southern route.
And while I am complaining…what ever happened to the train that once ran up through the Ute Pass? Don’t “they” know there are people up there?
Enjoy your travels.
SDE

]]> By: Mark Howard http://blogs.csbj.com/csbjdaily/2008/07/03/commentary-train-stations-reflections-and-the-midwest/#comment-1915 Mark Howard Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:55:36 +0000 http://blogs.csbj.com/csbjdaily/2008/07/03/commentary-train-stations-reflections-and-the-midwest/#comment-1915 As I read this, Charles Kurault's voice cued up. Tales from the heartland -- the depth of the plight midwesterners are suffering from the floods is surpassed only by their spirit to carry on. Tornados, floods, drought; doesn't matter. Those farmers and farm-market business people may stumble, but they don't fall. That attitude of adjustment and assimilation is what we Front Rangers (new and old) must find within ourselves to take the bold steps into the future necessitated by a changing world. As I read this, Charles Kurault’s voice cued up. Tales from the heartland — the depth of the plight midwesterners are suffering from the floods is surpassed only by their spirit to carry on. Tornados, floods, drought; doesn’t matter. Those farmers and farm-market business people may stumble, but they don’t fall. That attitude of adjustment and assimilation is what we Front Rangers (new and old) must find within ourselves to take the bold steps into the future necessitated by a changing world.

]]> By: sharon berthrong http://blogs.csbj.com/csbjdaily/2008/07/03/commentary-train-stations-reflections-and-the-midwest/#comment-1913 sharon berthrong Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:42:27 +0000 http://blogs.csbj.com/csbjdaily/2008/07/03/commentary-train-stations-reflections-and-the-midwest/#comment-1913 Lon I enjoyed your trip across NE. I just returned from Omaha and saw the same things you saw. Green and beautiful. I am a native Nebraskan - It is beautiful but I don't want to live there. Try the trip in mid-winter. Desolate. Thanks tho. Have a good fourth. I love this daily service of yours. Thanks. Lon

I enjoyed your trip across NE. I just returned from Omaha and saw the same things you saw. Green and beautiful.

I am a native Nebraskan - It is beautiful but I don’t want to live there. Try the trip in mid-winter. Desolate.
Thanks tho. Have a good fourth.

I love this daily service of yours. Thanks.

]]> By: Rosanne Gain http://blogs.csbj.com/csbjdaily/2008/07/03/commentary-train-stations-reflections-and-the-midwest/#comment-1912 Rosanne Gain Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:38:14 +0000 http://blogs.csbj.com/csbjdaily/2008/07/03/commentary-train-stations-reflections-and-the-midwest/#comment-1912 Lon, while I was reading your article, I was picturing you and your family on a train, then I came across: "I reflected as we continued our drive along Lake Michigan ..." and realized that you were in a car. Perhaps you will ride the rails next time? Happy 4th everyone Lon, while I was reading your article, I was picturing you and your family on a train, then I came across:
“I reflected as we continued our drive along Lake Michigan …” and realized that you were in a car. Perhaps you will ride the rails next time?

Happy 4th everyone

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