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Article #246Re: Commuting by train builds new friends and social contacts
From: ill
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:11
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:11
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Andrew Szafran wrote: > In misc.transport.rail.americas ill <illadel@hotmail.com> wrote: > >>Don Hagstrom wrote: >>I hope that you have fun sitting in traffic. Here in Philly where we >>have a great commuter rail system our and roads seem to never make those >>"traffic hell" lists even though we only have two underpowered highways >>running through our (5.5 Million)city. > > > LA's air sucks more due to local geographic conditions than anything else. > I believe that Spanish explorers noticed a "haze" over what was to become > LA 500 or so years ago. > > That being said, transit is a good thing - on a train, you can do things > *other* than driving, like reading a book, or talking to others. > > -Andrew Well true...the smog "bowl" that is the LA metro area does have a great deal of help from the several million cars driving on that impressive highway system. I don't actually think transit will every really catch on in Southern California or any "recently" (post 50's) developed area. They were built around the car. Guess until those low cost Hydrogen Fuel Cells hit the market it's gonna be a lot more of those pollution enhanced sunsets....
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