Stephen Russell wrote: > 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. >
It'd be great if they offered some sort of incentives (end of year tax-wise perhaps) for those who used mass-transmit for most of the year. I never understood why/how Europe's rail system is allegedly great and in regular use over there, yet our rail system here in the U.S. is nothing of what it used to be, and some say that the government funding for AmTrak and the like is bullshit because the train companies don't make (much) profit....allegedly. I don't know who/what to believe on that one, and I regret to say I have no time to do "deep" research (other than googling some keywords) to find out. Lazy, I guess....or just dis-interested. <g> _______________________________________________ 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.
