Urban dwellers who work in the burbs? We know it's becoming ever more
common. Is long before Minneapolis is a 'bedroom community ?
Craig Miller
Former Fultonite
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From: Rich McMartin (Rich McMartin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 10:24 AM
Subject: Better metro bus service - WAS:waitron? no.
>> pc be damned i refuse to call someone a "waitron"
>> waiter, waitress, sir or miss, but i am not not going
>> to do it.
>..
>> we need less smarmy feel good articles and more and
>> better metro bus service
>
>Yes. And we need some "salmon" buses that go the opposite way that they
>do now so that urban dwellers can "swim up stream" to the jobs in the
>suburbs.
>
>Years ago I read an article about a city in Brasil that has a "planned"
>bus system. None of the buses had a lift for wheel chairs but all were
>wheel chair accessible. They did this by using platforms at the bus stops
>that had ramps to the level where the bus loaded - kind of like walking
>onto an LRT car.
>
>Unfortunately that probably works better near the equator than it does in
>the winter time here. Which will probably bring the conversation back to
>the much discussed PRT solution to this. I will let others discuss that
>option.
>
>Speaking of wintertime here: If you have the opportunity, you might
>consider helping keep the corners snow free and clearing a spot on your
>block so that people can get on the bus more easily.
>
>
>Rich McMartin
>Bryant Neighborhood.
