Re: Commuting by train builds new friends and social contacts

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From: Jack May
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:49

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"James Robinson" <wascana@212.com> wrote in message 
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> Sure there is.  There are two television programs that investigate the
> socio-economic condition of people riding commuter trains, including the
> development of friendships:
>
> Going Home played in Australia:
>
> http://www.australiantelevision.net/goinghome.html
>
> Train 48 now plays in Canada:
>
> http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-19617/
> http://www.canada.com/entertainment/features/train48/index.html

Television programs are not real life.   Television must be a lot more 
exciting than real life to stay on the air.

I rode the San Diego light rail once since it is considered the most 
successful such system in the US.   The image that sticks in my mind most is 
the full train with people going to work with no happiness in their face, no 
"light" in their eyes, and no interactions with anyone else on the train.

They were just blankly staring ahead.   All the life seemed to have been 
drained out of them.

The train was coming from the Mexican border going to downtown through what 
I think is a poor part of the city.   Poverty may explain part of the highly 
depressing mood on the train.

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