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Article #237Re: Commuting by train builds new friends and social contacts
From: Sancho Panza
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 05:29
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 05:29
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"ill" <illadel@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:ckp09k$3cfr$1@netnews.upenn.edu... > Transit service within Philadelphia has been reduced by much more than > 30 percent so the "evacuation" model is a little off but valid. It didn't include the dispersion of businesses. > And the roads that you are mentioning are all in new growth areas. NJ 55 > has become a traffic issue because of the large amount of people who > want to work in Center City Philly but want to live in South Jersey . So > you have all of theses new developments that *must* use a car to get to > NJ 42 and over the Walt Whitman Bridge. No Transit = Traffic Doesn't the Lindenwold Hi-Speed serve much of that market? > If all of those people chose to drive....the four lanes of I-76 would not be able to handle it (not that it does a great job now) The City of Philadelphia continues to constitute less than one-third of the CMSA in population and far less than that in area. That is why it was a distortion to say that a metropolitan region of 5.5 million had two freeways.
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