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Article #249Re: Commuting by train builds new friends and social contacts
From: Robert Cote
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:05
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:05
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In article <ckgtth$f4fl$1@netnews.upenn.edu>, ill <illadel@hotmail.com> wrote: > Don Hagstrom wrote: > > Exactly. You don't see Caltrans having to promote use of the freeway > > system... > > > > I hope those Metrolink commuters are really having a good time--those > > parties and social sessions are really costing the taxpayer in terms of > > fare > > subsidies... > > > > Don Hagstrom > > > > "Steve Hoskins" <sjhhoskins@earthlink.net> wrote in message > > news:ggkmm0tispk2e6qhuk5l1v1c1seb156nup@4ax.com... > > > >>This very same article appeared months ago in the LA Times..I wonder > >>if Metrolink doesn't pay them to run it regularly just to pump up > >>folks opinions. > > > > 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. And as I recall you are in the midsts of another SEPTA funding crisis. You also have far more freeways per capita. > > Transit works. Highways may allow you to drive directly to a location > but is by far the least efficient way to move people around. Transit is twice as slow, three times as costly. Some efficiency. > > All great cities require an efficient way to move it's population. > That's why LA's air sucks...selfish people refuse to have to deal with > others so... When the Spanish explorers first landed they discovered the area was named by the native peoples "The Valley of Smokes." LA's air sucks because of geography, nothing more.
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