Marcus Jones
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64 recordings
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard 14 Sep
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The system they are entrenched in, the system they seek to expand, and the system they now wish to pull money away from rail funding for has only one consistency, unreliability.
Whether it's me booking my trip to work two hours before I clock in and still being late, or my mother missing her oncology appointments because her driver keeps having to pick up new riders before she gets there, this system is an abject failure.
A 2020 study by Monash University and UC Berkeley showed that more than half of these systems fail worldwide due to cost and reliability issues.
This reliability issue is not a failure of implementation, it's a failure of selection.
Micro transit is the wrong tool for this job.
It does not fit.
Worldwide, cities are not using this high-tech gimmick to fix their transit.
They do it with increased frequencies and expanded routes instead of funneling money into a service that will fail riders and require even more money to be replaced.
So I am tonight asking City Council to direct its MPTA representatives to leave the rail funding untouched, deprioritize or decommission micro, and reinvest the funding back into the rest of Butter Bus.
Thank you.
I am here to speak in support of the 150-day moratorium.
I come to you as a subject matter expert.
I have spent 25 years, I know I look young, but I have spent 25 years in big data.
server farms, systems engineering and artificial intelligence.
And the last three years have been spent almost exclusively on deploying AI responsibly for businesses big and small, many of whom are in North Carolina.
That is eight to 14 times the combined residential power demand of the entire city of Mooresville for one facility.
And if you do choose to approve any hyperscale facility, I implore you to consider two things, water consumption, where that one facility in Northeast Charlotte will take 2% of total water capacity for all of Charlotte, and ensure that the taxpayer revenue that comes from those facilities get returned back to us in the form of dividends to offset the rates that we are gonna pay in electricity and water.
Thank you very much.
Good evening.
I'm Brandon Jones, Catawba Riverkeeper.
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