Comments on: Trains Or Buses? Upstate Debates While Fairfield County Suffers

By: Steve Collins

Steve Collins — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:08:59 +0000

I’m not saying that Fairfield County’s transportation needs should be ignored. There’s no doubt in any sane person’s head that the logjam there is hurting the economy of all of New England, including Central Connecticut.
But it’s ridiculous to make it seem that dealing with the needs of other regions somehow means that Fairfield County commuters are getting shortchanged.
Besides, if they’re really frustrated with long commutes, they can move to Bristol.

By: Just there

Just there — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:30:27 +0000

By: isthisstevecollinsct.com?

isthisstevecollinsct.com? — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:27:50 +0000

Steve Collins,

You work for a newspaper? Desperate are the times

You’re an absolute @ss. I could say it in nicer words, but you really need a good b*tchslap. Make that 40. Not because it would knock some sense into your self-centered thick brain, but to shut you up.

No where in the original post does it say let the rest of the states’ cities die.

Your childish, illogical defense mechanism kicked in, probably because you resent people who worked hard for what they got, thinking they all cheated or inherited it. But you still think the tax base taking trains to NYC or sitting in stop and go traffic for an extra hour every day should pay for your central CT folks too
poor to won a car should have us pay to work at the WalMart two towns away.

Commuting on I-95 or 15 is a choke every business day. Mass transportation doesn’t work unless you’re lucky enough to get a job next to the railroad or are on a main-line in Stamford or Norwalk. Buses don’t connect the towns in between very well if at all, so that is not an option for a majority of commuters.

I hope you get laid off, as local newspapers are dying. Then 6 months after your unemployment runs out, you get an interview in Stamford, BUT YOU DON’T GET THE JOB BECAUSE YOU’RE OVER AN HOUR LATE FOR THE APPOINTMENT!

By: Adam Blank

Adam Blank — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:36:41 +0000

Steve – I didn’t realize all the State money was flowing to Fairfield County. I think you have it backwards. Our money goes to fund the rest of the state. Even still, I probably wouldn’t complain if we were building a school in Bristol or a prison in New Britain or a job training center in Hartford. But we are talking mass transit and the state’s most pressing transit needs sure aren’t upstate.

By: Steve Collins

Steve Collins — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:07:39 +0000

Last time I checked, Bristol was part of Connecticut, too. But I suppose it’s better to say to the old industrial cities of the state that they should just die and go away rather than doing something to help them become the dynamic engines of growth for the future.
I’m not sure why ESPN, which found Bristol a welcoming home, should be shut out as well in your haste to shovel cash at the richest section of the state.
I don’t know whether Bristol should have commuter rail or New Britain should have a busway. But I do know that saying to both towns — and the whole region — that it should close up shop and let Fairfield County have even more money is patently offensive.
By the way, iif you don’t like Hartford’s sprawl, then you ought to love the commuter rail proposal.