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Point 1:
	Mass transportation will never work in Austin.  It's just too
	spread out here.  It works in Boston, NY, San Francisco, and
	Europe,  because those places are dense.

	A bus between UT and downtown will work but that about covers
	it.

Point 2:
	Anyone making more than $X/hour can't afford to spend an extra
	hour screwing around with busses everyday.  Their time is
	better spent elsewhere.  If gas was $4/gallon like it is in
	Europe then X would be higher than 5, which is what it is
	here.  Economics 101.

Point 3:
	Lord deliver me from the Austin American Statesman and their
	$200 million electric trains.  If 10% of Austinites rode those
	trains everyday at 1$/ride it would take 20 years to pay back
	the $200 mil if there was no interest, no maintenance and no
	salaries.  Please.  P.S. Electric trains are ugly.
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