Public transport

An apartment square meter on the cost is varying from 1000 Dollars minium (in jounieh) to 2500 dollars in Beirut. The need for affordable real estate prices couldn't be more important. Yet as we all know real estate is the one commodity that can't increase. Or can it?
How about living in the villages. Prices there are still affordable. But the main problem is that people need to commute every day to their in beirut and its suburds.

The solution:
- A train line that passes across the coast.
A train is the fastest land transport available. It could get you from batroun to beirut in less than 30 minutes. It is never congested. Once there you could take a service.

But why stop there. With global warming, rising fuel prices, high car prices, congestion. Why not have a reliable bus system. A bus system that can get you around the city, to the suburbs - anywhere in lebanon- and take little time and little money.

Both these ideas are not far fetches. Both are applied in Europe and work well. But they need government subsidies, as they should. But the benefits are huge.

In fact why stop there.

If we want to go all the way, why not have telepheriques (arial tramway) that take you over to more mountains on the cost. Houses are cheaper there, and with telepherique they could become a good alternative to a house on the coast.


And how to fund these projects. Oh I don't know, what does the government do with all those taxes they levy on us. How about they stop stealing it and start giving it to the people.