> > Mass transit is great when your population saturation is high enough. > You > get a ride to the station, hop on a train and get off near work. You > then > walk the 5,10, 20+ blocks to the workplace. > > Unfortunately the USA was designed around a cheap gas model where under > 1.00 > per gal has been the norm for decades. That has lead to suburban > sprawl and > moms driving super big SUVs to take 2 or 3 kids to soccer practice. > > It is hard to give up the sprawl and go back to a more centralized > environment where mass transit works. Buses are now getting a higher > rider > share then they use to. That is a good thing. That bus will still be > on > the street, your vehicle doesn't need to be all the time.
Speak for yourself. I lived for a year in Russia right after its collapse and I want nothing to do with public mass transit, having got a decent taste of it. I don't mind the walking so much as the smelly, crowded, miserable buses themselves, the stench of their belching poisonous gasses, and the fact you need to factor two hours of one way travel for a trip that would, in a car, take maybe forty minutes to complete. Try waiting for one that's a half hour late in the cold and snow, and see what you think of this throw-back idea. Oh, I know, we'll have "green" buses that run perfectly on schedule---that is, we'll do socialism better than everybody else. Unfortunately, this conception of American exceptionalism is quite misconstrued. - Bob > > > -- > Stephen Russell > Sr. Production Systems Programmer > Mimeo.com > Memphis TN _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
