Hybrids and Electric cars are useless. I imagine they would have a bus going to your house if people used it. Empty buses just add to traffic.
. On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree...I think we need more public transportation. I would love to dump > my car, but until non-urban areas get decent and usable public trans, that > will never be able to happen. Out in Aurora, IL, when I lived there, there > was a bus that went to the transportation center where you boarded the Metra > trains to go to downtown Chicago. This bus picked up about 2 houses down > from where I lived. The only problem was that they stopped running the bus > as 4pm...making it completely useless. There weren't any other busses that > ran anywhere near where I lived between 5-7pm, when most people coming in > from the city, would be arriving in Aurora. It's a 1-1 1hr 45min ride > depending on if you get an express train or a local. So if you figure > getting off work at 5 or 6pm, that is getting you out to Aurora at 6-7 pm. > Aurora is even a relative lower middle class to lower class community where > many rely on public transportation to get around. I also think more people > would use public trans if they had a decent system that could get them to > the placers they want to go. In some areas, this may not be feasible...like > in rural areas. Maybe the solution is for the government to really push > hard on AFVs and Eletric/Hybrid cars. What I would have loved to see is > instead of the cash for clunkers, how about a direct exchange of your gas > powered car for a hybrid or electric car. I would turn in my car for that > in a heartbeat. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:336440 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
