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Bonita Kale (bf455@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:
: I would also support a petition for a 5 year moratorium on building or
: widening roads.  Maintenance work only for 5 years, and work on a viable
: public transport network of some  sort, instead of paving the nation.

I have lived in communities that tried to do this. The only result
was more congestions resulting in massive rush projects when it
became evident that stopping growth was like ordering the tide
to turn back. In the San Francisco bay area, the average is 10%
mass transit use. In SF where you are no more than 2 blocks from
a bus stop and they run every 15 minutes during the day, only
1/3 of the trips are done using mass transit. The reality is
you can build the best mass transit there is and most people
still will not use it. Mass transit is no panacea. It is
A solution but it is clearly not THE solution. Cars
are unavoidable. When I lived in SF about half the time it
was faster to travel by car in a city that is about as
car hostile as any in the country and with as good a
mass transit system as any in the country. It is clear
from my experience that no single solution will do more
than solve only a part of the problem.

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