[correct message sequence restored] > On bikies Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:02:07 -0800, "Michael D. Barrett" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > A: Decent Transit.
In Message: 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A. "Miles Less Traveled", p. 10 of: > http://www.danenet.org/bcp/bta/spokenword_1199.pdf > or see: > Plan to Reduce Auto Usage: > http://www.danenet.org/bcp/vmr.pdf Perhaps, and the basic concept has some merit even though some of the specifics are flawed, but regardless of what you think of the details of this paper that continues to be trotted out as the answer to nearly everything imaginable ill, Mike (Barrett) is still correct. You simply can not, repeat CAN NOT, realistically begin to reduce auto usage in the absence of decent transit. A decent rapid transit system that runs frequently, efficiently, and at affordable fares is the prerequisite to anything else you could ever hope to do to get people out of their cars more often. Now go back to lunch.... Now go have a beer, Bob Paolino "Are Canadians just Americans who carry hockey sticks instead of guns, or is there more to it than that?" --"This Canadian Existence" Wisconsin Public Radio ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign X against HTML e-mail: / \ Friends don't send friends HTML-bloated messages! A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top-posting frowned upon? _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
