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Mike Ballard <mike@scvresources.com> wrote in message news:<3B0F01E7.903AF0AF@scvresources.com>...
> Rail didn't exist in Los Angeles until 1990 and it is being used so much
> that the trains are overcrowded. So, don't say that people wouldn't use
> it if it were built. Freeways are fixed too, so the whole fixed rail
> thing is bogus. Both are. I don't advocate building just rail, nor just
> freeways. Balance is always needed. I use both to get to work, a freeway
> to speed me to my train station, and a train to speed me to work.
> 
> --

Not saying that no one uses it.  But it is not being used enough to
justify the massive subsidies.  It hasn't delivered traffic relief
even to the freeway corridors that they parallel.

Freeways are fixed but they flow seamlessly onto the surface road
network.  Rail does not do this and requires bus feeders (which
themselves use roads).

Balance is fine only if both parts of the teeter-totter can do their
part to keep the darn thing going.  Right now, the transit receives
all the subsidies and the freeways do all the work.  Hardly fair or
efficient.

Don

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