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In ye olden post elson@westworld.com spake...
>NEED A RIDE DURING THE STRIKE? TRY METRO ANGELS!
>
>The MTA's operators and mechanics are on strike. Your subway ride is
>shut down. Your daily bus ride is not operating. What can you do?


Buy an SUV.



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Bruce Linley wrote:
> 
> In ye olden post elson@westworld.com spake...
> >NEED A RIDE DURING THE STRIKE? TRY METRO ANGELS!
> >
> >The MTA's operators and mechanics are on strike. Your subway ride is
> >shut down. Your daily bus ride is not operating. What can you do?
> 
> Buy an SUV.

No!  Buy a People Carrier!

> --
> Bruce James Robert Linley | +---+---+--_ | "Ocha tte nigai demo... hito no chi
> linley at megami dot org  | |   |NV | UT |  wa atatakakute tottemo amai no"
> Programmer, Fortunet Inc. | \ CA \  |___ | "Tea is always bitter... but blood
> Las Vegas, Nevada, USA ---------> \*| AZ |  is warm and sweet"     - Miyu

Bruce Linley wrote the quoted material below:

" Buy an SUV.

Heh...now people in LA are realizing what life would be like without
public transit: 400,000 more cars on the road.


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(C) 2000                                    "Alien Navel" is a baby's name
David Kaye                                         registered in Virginia.
                                                                          

David Kaye <dk@removethis.area.com> writes:

> Heh...now people in LA are realizing what life would be like without
> public transit: 400,000 more cars on the road.

It doesn't look any worse (than usual) to me.
I doubt many bus riders even have cars here..

As opposed to San Francisco where the public
transit is actually good enough to appeal to
even people who do have cars.

Billy Y..

In article <8q8c8n$7tq$1@nnrp1.phx.gblx.net>,
  abuse@MIX.COM wrote:
> David Kaye <dk@removethis.area.com> writes:
>
> > Heh...now people in LA are realizing what life would be like without
> > public transit: 400,000 more cars on the road.
>
> It doesn't look any worse (than usual) to me.
> I doubt many bus riders even have cars here..

I left work 15 minutes early and still arrived a couple minutes late.
Wilshire Blvd at 9 am was a literal parking lot.
And my commute was only 6-7 miles on surface streets.
It's a lot more worse today than yesterday.

You tell ME that's not an impact.

> As opposed to San Francisco where the public
> transit is actually good enough to appeal to
> even people who do have cars.

So what's your point? If you like SF, then move there.

Elson




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abuse@MIX.COM wrote the quoted material below:

" As opposed to San Francisco where the public
" transit is actually good enough to appeal to
" even people who do have cars.

What's sad about LA is that it was *built* on public transit.  Nearly
every community can trace its existence to having once been on a Pacific
Electric streetcar line.  I was appalled to find out that in the 1970s
when many cities were building streetcar/LRV lines, LA was literally
*abandoning* the old PE rights of way.  Now, the PE can never be rebuilt.


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David Kaye                                                                
                                                                          

Bill Heiden wrote the quoted material below:

"   The lack of availble parking also figures into
" why people use Muni rather than drive their
" own cars within SF.

No doubt that this is a contributing factor.  I think it's a cross between
need and the Muni's large number of coaches and frequent service.  They
feed off each other.  


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David Kaye                 than men, but can't get as many business loans.
                                                                          

abuse@MIX.COM wrote:

>
> As opposed to San Francisco where the public
> transit is actually good enough to appeal to
> even people who do have cars.
>

  The lack of availble parking also figures into
why people use Muni rather than drive their
own cars within SF.

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In article <39C807CC.8D7E5533@anim.dreamworks.com>, billh@anim.dreamworks.com says...
> abuse@MIX.COM wrote:
> 
> >
> > As opposed to San Francisco where the public
> > transit is actually good enough to appeal to
> > even people who do have cars.
> >
> 
>   The lack of availble parking also figures into
> why people use Muni rather than drive their
> own cars within SF.

You really can't ignore the hills. I know quite a few people who are just terrified to drive in 
SF. When I lived in Noe Valley, I had a friend who would visit from Santa Rosa... he would park 
in the Marina and take Muni the rest of the way.

Only place I'm been that can be almost as car unfriendly are mid-size dutch towns (like 
Arnheim)... one wrong turn and you have around the entire town to get back.. :)