Comments on: Public Mandate for Mayors Is For Change at Airport http://www.smartcitymemphis.com/2012/08/public-mandate-for-mayors-is-for-change-at-airport/ Fri, 17 May 2013 19:15:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://www.smartcitymemphis.com/2012/08/public-mandate-for-mayors-is-for-change-at-airport/comment-page-1/#comment-30242 Anonymous Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:02:13 +0000 http://www.smartcitymemphis.com/?p=10946#comment-30242 Sorry, meant to say "...park and ride facility when events were are taking place at the Forum". As for the buses, they were never meant to actually enter the facility. In fact George W Lee was improved under the idea it would serve as part of the bus circulator route. Anyway, the point is that for the garage to serve as a park-and-ride facility all they would need to do is open one level of parking for public use during weekday working hours and be sure that the adjoining bus stop had a map and schedule of the buses that serve that location. Basically a couple of signs, open the garage door, a map or two and presto: park and ride facility. All of this is really off topic. I am hoping that the interest of both mayors is enough to ignite a fire under the bellies of the board. Air service is no longer driven by purely free market interests. Subsidies either via the feds or via financial support for airport improvement projects have seen to that. Perhaps the board, which was largely responsible for guiding MEM through deregulation, is not equipped to consider their role in forging a new direction that involves both the private market and a far more active public interest and participation role. Sorry, meant to say “…park and ride facility when events were are taking place at the Forum”.
As for the buses, they were never meant to actually enter the facility. In fact George W Lee was improved under the idea it would serve as part of the bus circulator route. Anyway, the point is that for the garage to serve as a park-and-ride facility all they would need to do is open one level of parking for public use during weekday working hours and be sure that the adjoining bus stop had a map and schedule of the buses that serve that location. Basically a couple of signs, open the garage door, a map or two and presto: park and ride facility.

All of this is really off topic.

I am hoping that the interest of both mayors is enough to ignite a fire under the bellies of the board. Air service is no longer driven by purely free market interests. Subsidies either via the feds or via financial support for airport improvement projects have seen to that. Perhaps the board, which was largely responsible for guiding MEM through deregulation, is not equipped to consider their role in forging a new direction that involves both the private market and a far more active public interest and participation role.

]]> By: Mark http://www.smartcitymemphis.com/2012/08/public-mandate-for-mayors-is-for-change-at-airport/comment-page-1/#comment-30123 Mark Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:48:05 +0000 http://www.smartcitymemphis.com/?p=10946#comment-30123 I should have mentioned, both of those features were included in the original plan so that the city could use federal or state transportation funds in the construction of the garage. I should have mentioned, both of those features were included in the original plan so that the city could use federal or state transportation funds in the construction of the garage.

]]> By: Mark http://www.smartcitymemphis.com/2012/08/public-mandate-for-mayors-is-for-change-at-airport/comment-page-1/#comment-30122 Mark Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:47:01 +0000 http://www.smartcitymemphis.com/?p=10946#comment-30122 If I am not mistaken, there was to be both a park-and-ride facility and an internal bus station/stop in the first floor of the garage. You can see the street-level space where it was supposed to be on the south side of the garage on Linden/MLK. If I am not mistaken, there was to be both a park-and-ride facility and an internal bus station/stop in the first floor of the garage. You can see the street-level space where it was supposed to be on the south side of the garage on Linden/MLK.

]]> By: Finegold Hasava http://www.smartcitymemphis.com/2012/08/public-mandate-for-mayors-is-for-change-at-airport/comment-page-1/#comment-30119 Finegold Hasava Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:41:50 +0000 http://www.smartcitymemphis.com/?p=10946#comment-30119 Anon 12:05 Can you explain the need for a park and ride facility at FedEx Forum "when events .. are taking place at the Forum"? How would it work? Anon 12:05

Can you explain the need for a park and ride facility at FedEx Forum “when events .. are taking place at the Forum”? How would it work?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.smartcitymemphis.com/2012/08/public-mandate-for-mayors-is-for-change-at-airport/comment-page-1/#comment-30118 Anonymous Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:05:15 +0000 http://www.smartcitymemphis.com/?p=10946#comment-30118 Anon 8:01, It know it’s picky, but if we are going to heap charges on public officials let’s make sure if have our facts straight. FedEx Forum was never meant to hold a “bus depot”. The bus routes and stops are in place. What is missing is the portion of the garage that was to serve as a park and ride facility when events were are taking place at the Forum. Anon 8:01,
It know it’s picky, but if we are going to heap charges on public officials let’s make sure if have our facts straight. FedEx Forum was never meant to hold a “bus depot”. The bus routes and stops are in place. What is missing is the portion of the garage that was to serve as a park and ride facility when events were are taking place at the Forum.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.smartcitymemphis.com/2012/08/public-mandate-for-mayors-is-for-change-at-airport/comment-page-1/#comment-30116 Anonymous Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:47:10 +0000 http://www.smartcitymemphis.com/?p=10946#comment-30116 OK, so where is the Memphis Flyer cover story? If the Mayor won't act (keep in mind his wife is on the board) then lets lobby what is suposed to be our "alternative" press to expose, inform and quite frankly lobby on behalf of the citizens of Memphis.....we need term limits on the boards ...and I think that the C&VB is right up there in terms of being stale, old guard , been in power forever leadership. How about a public protest with signs in front of the airport? or at City Hall? Keep the pressure up, I say. Keep the "demand for leadership change" in the news. A protest would do that. OK, so where is the Memphis Flyer cover story? If the Mayor won’t act (keep in mind his wife is on the board) then lets lobby what is suposed to be our “alternative” press to expose, inform and quite frankly lobby on behalf of the citizens of Memphis…..we need term limits on the boards …and I think that the C&VB is right up there in terms of being stale, old guard , been in power forever leadership.

How about a public protest with signs in front of the airport? or at City Hall? Keep the pressure up, I say. Keep the “demand for leadership change” in the news. A protest would do that.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.smartcitymemphis.com/2012/08/public-mandate-for-mayors-is-for-change-at-airport/comment-page-1/#comment-30112 Anonymous Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:01:58 +0000 http://www.smartcitymemphis.com/?p=10946#comment-30112 And maybe Mr. Perl can find the missing bus depot in FedEx forum. Why has no one held him accountable? Cox and Perl - too long with airport. And maybe Mr. Perl can find the missing bus depot in FedEx forum. Why has no one held him accountable? Cox and Perl – too long with airport.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.smartcitymemphis.com/2012/08/public-mandate-for-mayors-is-for-change-at-airport/comment-page-1/#comment-30111 Anonymous Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:12:55 +0000 http://www.smartcitymemphis.com/?p=10946#comment-30111 Dear Anonymous, I think you have hit the nail on the head. Go read Kelley Ertler's coverage of this on DDM. She has done the research and linked most of the members of what is a "daisy chain" of cronyism at the airport authority. Dear Anonymous,
I think you have hit the nail on the head. Go read Kelley Ertler’s coverage of this on DDM. She has done the research and linked most of the members of what is a “daisy chain” of cronyism at the airport authority.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.smartcitymemphis.com/2012/08/public-mandate-for-mayors-is-for-change-at-airport/comment-page-1/#comment-30101 Anonymous Fri, 17 Aug 2012 05:40:46 +0000 http://www.smartcitymemphis.com/?p=10946#comment-30101 Memphis suffers from a local good ole boy network that has woven its fingers into many of our quasi-public institutions. But if the mayor won’t change the make-up of our Airport Authority, Convention & Visitors Bureau, and Chamber then where is the local press? Where is the press in detailing how long the same positions have been held in Atlanta, Nashville, Louisville, and New Orleans? Lets compare and contrast our insular city – where all the positions are held by friends who appoint each other to boards, are all from Memphis and have severed in the same crony positions for decades. Why would a young well-educated person move to a city where the same old white men hold positions of power for decades? Does the Memphis press not have a role to play? Or are they also afraid of rocking the entrenched slow moving barge that is sometimes Memphis…. Memphis suffers from a local good ole boy network that has woven its fingers into many of our quasi-public institutions. But if the mayor won’t change the make-up of our Airport Authority, Convention & Visitors Bureau, and Chamber then where is the local press? Where is the press in detailing how long the same positions have been held in Atlanta, Nashville, Louisville, and New Orleans? Lets compare and contrast our insular city – where all the positions are held by friends who appoint each other to boards, are all from Memphis and have severed in the same crony positions for decades. Why would a young well-educated person move to a city where the same old white men hold positions of power for decades?
Does the Memphis press not have a role to play? Or are they also afraid of rocking the entrenched slow moving barge that is sometimes Memphis….

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