🚀 go-pugleaf

Brad Crockett (bcrock@happy.nuts.almanac.bc.ca) wrote:
>davison@selkirk.sfu.ca (R. Davison) writes:
>> This is just pathetic!  Do you really think that people commute because
>> they like too?  Its expensive and inconvenient.  All I need is to have
>> parking reduced so that in addition to my 45min drive I can search for
>> parking for another 15.
>
>> There is a reason people don't take the bus.  Its inconvenient and
>> time consuming.  My current 45 minute drive (each way) is extended
>> to 2 hour bus ride (yes I have tried it) (yes each way).  If
>> BC transit were to stop wasting taxpayers money with pathetic
>> service people WOULD get out of their cars and take transit.  But
>> the solution is to make transit an attractive alternative, not to
>> make driving unbearable ... this is happening already without stupid
>> artifical barriers.
>
>This seems a good case for moving the homes that people live in
>closer to their workplace.  Something should change because it's
>just going to get worse.

What about families where both partners work in different areas? At least
one of them is going to be inconvenienced.
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Jim Robinson
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