today is the day

[Yanni Chiu]

On 25/10/10 11:27 PM, William Park wrote:
> I live in Mississauga, and commute 100km per day.  So, I may be biased,
> but I'm utterly opposed to Public Transit.  If city wants to assist
> people with transportation, then city can run "public car rental".

Oh crap, I wanted to stay out of this thread, but this is too much.

William, are you also utterly opposed to Public Roads too? Those cost 
big bucks to build and maintain.

Your position on "public car rental" (which I assume is an attempt at 
humour), reminds me of former Premier Mike Harris, who canceled three (I 
think the number was three) subways lines over a decade ago. With his 
limited experience in Northern Ontario, his insight was that people got 
into their cars to go places. That behaviour does not scale from rural 
to urban areas. If you add cars in an urban area, eventually the roads 
are gridlocked. If you add cars in a rural area, you run out of drivers, 
so there's no gridlock.
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