Buster,
Never ever lived in the NE US did ya?? Mass transit is a god send
here. Should be there as well, but apparently, like everything else
it became a boondogle.
There is no way in H that I could stand to live here W/O mass
transit. I live 36 miles from my office. To drive, 2.5 - 3 hours
easy. Drive to train, >2 hours, avoiding the idiots on the "SureKill"
Expressway, Priceless. Do not even ask me about driving into NYC.
BTDT, never again. Trains, Subways, etc are the only way to go.
Maybe in CA you all live in "such spatially diverse locations", and
the California given right to use more than your share of the fuel
the US uses, and own 2.3 cars per family, and think a drivers license
is a right, not a privelidge, but out here we do not take any of that
for granted. Besides the distance from SD to SF is nearly twice the
distance from DC to NYC. So space is something you mass transit
hating folks want. I think the roads here are horrendous, then I see
the pics on CNN in the coverage of the new anti-transit bill of the
CA highway and wonder. Take a look here, you folks got like 8 - 10
feet between your cars on the highway, never seen that in 15 years.
You also have 3 - 6 lanes. The major roads into Philly, NY and DC are
all 2 lanes, sometimes for both directions.
Gimme me Mass Transit everyday of every week. Overpriced, but I do
not have to kill someone every day.
Larry
Note that I came from Wyoming, where mass transit still means "Wagon
Train"
On Aug 10, 2005, at 4:54 PM, Robert Evans wrote:
> Jay wrote:
>
>
>> To hell with mass transit, let's build more roads! And bike
>> paths! Mmm, smell that pork.
>>
>>
> Well, "mass transit" is kinda like perpetual motion and eternal youth.
> Looks good on paper, but just try to build it. In today's modern
> world,
> people live and work is such spatially diverse locations that mass
> transit would take people more time to get to work and home than they
> would spend at work. Oh, it works where a century or more ago people
> encircled a centralized workplace, and a subway/transit system
> could be
> built from scratch. But that simply is not the case today,
> particularly
> when you are talking about massive destruction of neighborhoods to
> even
> make it possible. And then, what is the result? Well, they have
> 17.2
> miles of subway from downtown Los Angeles to Hollyweird at a cost of
> $5.2 billion. And that is not even counting the millions in
> feasibility
> studies and economic losses to businesses enroute. Rail? Well, you
> have the much-vaughted "Green Line" that took over a decade to
> build at
> a cost of $718 million, and is laughingly referred to as the transit
> line that runs from nowhere to nowhere. Literally. There is no rhyme
> or reason for where it begins, or where it ends. That is probably why
> no one really rides it. No, I fear that the only ones who want "mass
> transit" are the consultants who do feasibility studies and
> bureaucrats
> who run them. Neither of which ride them.
>
> No, I suspect that the automobile is, as the commercial years ago
> said,
> "It's not just a car, it's your freedom." And that is what the
> automobile represents to America and its lifestyle.
>
> Buster Evans
> Anaheim, California
>
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