On 9/29/06, keith_w <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A fine answer, Frank. Reasonable and right. For you. > All depends on where you live and your life style, doesn't it?
It surely does. > If you happen to live in a city/community that has excellent public > transportation, if you're not married or have a steady...etc. > There are especially times in inclement weather (you certainly know about > that!) that one needs covered transportation. For convenience, if not for your > health! You are correct, sir! > Yes, there are alternatives in a city with good transportation. > Unquestionably. > A blown apart city like Los Angeles, with good distances between everything, > requires you either grossly restructure your life to avoid the need to drive > an IC-engined vehicle. > Our public transportation covers the more popular corridors pretty well. > But, many of the places you (I) want to go are well off that/those > corridors... Agreed. > I think I could function very well in London or a London-styled city. Public > transportation there is pure joy to a Los Angelean! <grin> I'm lucky in that I've lived in two large cities (Toronto and Montreal) that each have very good public transportation systems. I recognize that (a) not all urbanites are so lucky, and (b) living in a small town often means that a car is a daily necessity. Personally (and this isn't backed up by any empirical evidence that I know of), I think that nature has a great capacity to rid the air of toxins, so that in rural areas, for instance, motor vehicles have much less of an effect on the environment, as the trees (or whatever) aren't overwhelmed and can "do their job" of cleaning crap out of the air. However, in urban areas - which are overloaded with cars, and have much less green space to cleanse the air - nature is simply overwhelmed, and pollution happens. It sort of reaches a "critical mass", and then not much can be done about it. Does that make sense? (I fear I'm not being very articulate or coherent...) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
