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"John Higdon" <no-spam@RadioMonopoly.com> wrote in message
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> Some of us may have the stamina to walk several miles from one place to
> another, but very few of us have the time.

So why not trying to bring those services that people need closer so they
don't have to transport so far?

> The Bad News: The automobile will not be eliminated in the foreseeable
> future. You cannot recreate the entire nation in a carefully-planned
> socially-engineered urban model.

First of all, automobile is a form of social-enginerring. In fact, some can
say that people social engineer all the time. It is nothing scary about it,
so don't try to make it scary.

I don't expect automobiles to go away, because so many people have vested
interest in automobile than transit, from the mechanics to the TV media that
got their advertising dollars from auto ads. In Santa Clara County, I expect
most will still drive in the next 30 years; I have a strong doubt whether
the Gonzales tax will last for 30 years before some kind of proposition to
replace (not renewal) the tax so as to get just some funding to automobiles
before 2036. Also, Gonzales tax was sold purely on public perception, and
not on usefulness. There would be lots of empty train on the Gonzales'
subway everyday. Why would even transit advocates oppose to Gonzales' tax?