It must be someone at the Gazette playing with the numbers. Knowing this...can any of these polls mean anything?

This is how Bush got the votes in Florida!

I wonder if the dang thing will go past 20,000 by Monday?!?!?

Holy crap, Woody! I was thinking the same thing!!!

It is weird it lets you vote over and over. - of course it does, it is an Acorn poll.

The last time I checked, this poll was running about 50% to 50%. WHAT HAPPENED??? This looks like a poll taken in Iran for a politician.

Yes 5% 601 votes
No 94% 11382 votes

Is this what happens when a poll gets left on too long. 12,000 voters who hoo!

Hannah,
Thanks :-). I think Delavan was referring to "6156 total votes."

I think there are, but most don't go online and participate in the polls. Also, I don't know if there are that many gazette readers out there who are -registered- online.

There aint that many Gazette readers out there..................

I second Hannah's motion. This was a boring poll to begin with, and now look. It's been sabotaged. It was initially a very close vote, 51% in favor of yes and 49% in favor of no... I have a hard time believing this most recent spring of votes are legit.

I'd be more apt to support a bus than a taxi service. Almost everyone can afford a bus ride, but not everyone can afford a taxi.

The drinkers might want the alcohol to be subsidized too.

RideShare is a carpooling program, prevention (somebody drives their own car), but the service comes from the same pool of DOT money.
http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/travel/comm...

I'd be more than happy to start this if it meant people could get a job within the designated region. It sure sounds like that RideShare program you see when you get closer to Milwaukee going up I43.

A shared-ride taxi is a subsidized, affordable transit service for an area where bus routes would not be practical. The Wisconsin DOT encourages them and a number of cities across the state run them, e.g. Sun Prairie, Edgerton, Monroe, and Fort Atkinson in this area. It works a lot like an unsubsidized taxi service -- door to door service -- but to save costs you are not guaranteed a private cab; they can pick anyone up along the way if they're going the same direction. (Example trip: Your house; their house; your work; their work.) Costs for riders are more similar to a bus service (e.g. a couple of bucks) than to a private taxi.
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The purpose of a shared-ride service is to provide access to jobs and services, which benefits employers and other businesses in an area. Monroe and Fort Atkinson both had around 50,000 individual fares in 2007 -- both cities are about twice the size of Milton. (But Milton is in a unique situation as part of the Janesville metro area and a lot of job crossover takes place.)

beeferer - http://gazettextra.com/weblogs/opinion-m...

Macdaddy- What do they mean by "support" if they don't mean "use"? If they mean "support" as in "child support", then I most certainly do not want to "support" it. The question is vague. Now I am not sure what they mean. Also, who says it will be supported by tax dollars? How do we know it isn't someone who's thinking of starting a business utilizing this poll as a market study? Is there a story related to this? Where is it? How can anyone make a rational decision on this? This is akin to a poll asking "Are you in favor of blue?"

Could someone come and pick me up so I could go and get my weekly supply of "medicine" at Wood-man's super-market, and a National Enquirer? Perhaps we could cruise the "circus," if that's what you young folks are calling it now-o'days. I will gladly give you a handful of bright shiny new Wisconsin quarters for your trouble!

Mass transit is necessary for job creation as well as for quality of life.

I would use a subsidized bus service with defined routes.

Just another pie in the sky idea dreamed up by some liberal "do gooder" who wants to "feel good" about themselves by offering yet another way to spend tax payer money. If the need for a taxi service indeed exists, it will be filled the old fashioned way. Supply and demand: AKA Capitalism

As a Milton resident, I don't see a need for it. About the only people that would use it are the elderly and there are already programs in place to transport them. This is just another program that I will eventually have to pay for.
I can't count how many people at the bar know that taxi's are available and still don't use them. Why? They don't want to pay for them. Also, there is a program in Milton where people volunteer to come get the drunk and drive him home and from what I understand, it's seldom used.

Hooters: If they meant support as in use, i think they would have said "Would you use a shared-ride taxi service in the Milton and Janesville areas?"

You are correct that support could be used to mean that, but i highly doubt it, in this case.

I believe it is a good start to tying the county together as a larger community. It seems there are too many that encourage the alienation of each community from the next.

I for one would not use it (I don't drink, I own a vehicle, and I don't have a need to commute from Jvl to Milton). Therefore, "I" would not support it as in "use" it. If there is a need, then by all means provide it...but I viewed "support" as wanting to know who would use it. I assumed that this poll was to determine how many people would actually use the service...but results would not be a good indictor because there are alot of people who don't have the means to connect via the internet.

how can anyone say no? Most taxi services aid in taking people home from bars when they have had too much to drink. I for one, think we need to do more to make sure that NO ONE ever drives drunk or a little tipsy. If you had a loved one die because of a drunk driver you would whole-heartidly support this.