Public Transit (was: today is the day)

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:57:39AM -0400, William Park wrote:
> Perhaps, it's rural vs urban, but it's about money too.  For some
> strange reason, public transit attracts wrong type of people, solution,
> and policy.  Public transit promotes increase in population density,
> when public/national interest points to decrease in density.
> 
> 100km is 1 hour drive, which is nothing.  You can drive to London and
> back with the time you typically spend in grid-locked GTA commute.
> Solution to traffic jam is reduction in population density, not more
> public transit.

A 100km 1 hour drive is nothing for a weekend trip once in a while.

As a commute you would have to be insane to consider that reasonable.

We have enough air polution as it is and we don't need to use up all
the oil that quickly either.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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