Comments on: Spokane’s Rich History of the Adoption and Destruction of Rail Transportation: Please Be Doomed to Repeat! http://www.globalsiteplans.com/content/spokanes-rich-history-of-the-adoption-and-destruction-of-rail-transportation-please-be-doomed-to-repeat/ Branding for Architecture, Engineering, Environmental Non-Profits, Landscape Architecture, & Urban Planning Companies Fri, 17 May 2013 18:33:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: the SASS Man http://www.globalsiteplans.com/content/spokanes-rich-history-of-the-adoption-and-destruction-of-rail-transportation-please-be-doomed-to-repeat/comment-page-1/#comment-39476 the SASS Man Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:07:54 +0000 http://globalsiteplans.blogs.patsoffice.com/?p=11192#comment-39476 First, and foremost, for any sort of [i]Permanent Line Installation[/i] (as a rail system MUST be) to be successful, the system must serve a population that is guaranteed to exist in the same place, essentially, forever. Serving a popular hub, like Chenry, Medical Lake, Liberty Lake, or Deer Park MAY prove useful, if and only if such communities are both stable and prosperous.

Unfortunately, business is essentially as fickle as populations; and as rail lines lost popularity to the automobile in the 1930′s, entire populations now wax and wane as commercial interests falter, outsource, and relocate to cheaper and more lucrative hubs. Between the business practices of Spokane and its surrounding communities, and the tax laws in place in Washington State, I do not see any large, financially stable entities taking residence here any time soon. Silicon Valley we are NOT.

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