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Mike Vandeman wrote:

>  Wait two hours for a bus?
> 
> It never takes 2 hours to get a bus,

But, it does take 2 hours *to get somewhere* once on said bus.

> unless you live on top of a mountain. The point is that you can
> choose to live where transit is convenient. If you choose 
> otherwise, then it is your problem, not ours.

Hsan't he solved his "problem" by owning a car?

> .To those who have a lifestyle that enables them to use 
> self-propelled modes of transport, good for you, more power to you.
> Some day maybe I'll be in that group, but not now, and I will feel 
> absolutely NO guilt about driving my car.
> 
> You should. You have deliberately chosen a car-dependent lifestyle.
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D'oh!  I do believe in the idea that people make their own lives, but 
this can only happen to a certain extent.  How do you know this person 
can well afford to move to a mass-transit friendly area?  Perhaps he 
cannot even if he wanted to, and thus he lives here.  Let's say he has 
three young babies; seems a little impractical to me to be toting the 
kids on a bicycle as one runs errands across the city.  I'd be 
interested in knowing what products you buy, or do you make all your 
own household products (i.e. dishwashing liquid, soap, etc.).  
Corporations do their fair share of polluting the environment, so I 
hope you're boycotting just about everything sold at your neighborhood 
Lucky.  Like was said earlier, if you can do the bicycle thing, 
great--I'm really almost jealous of you.  I can't bike to sdsu on my 
lunch break at work because I wouldn't have time.  I can drive there, 
though, and get back without being late and docked pay and all that.  
Most sdsu offices are open--for your convenience--during regular 
business hours.  And, as someone who is completing graduate school 
applications, I end up needing to go there a lot.  And I have yet to 
figure out how to get my dry cleaning home from the cleaners on a 
bike.  I'm sure there's a way, I just don't have enough ingenuity--or 
ambition, or both--for the task.

--sarah