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- From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
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- Subject: Re: Cars, Cities and Choices
- Keywords: Cars Transit Cities
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.222232.6070@s1.gov>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 22:22:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.144248.2912@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul28.204107.16302@s1.gov> lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
- >>In article <1992Jul28.172027.28257@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
- :::The only good thing about malls is that they're air conditioned. The
- :::worst thing about malls is you have to walk through them to get to
- :::the store you want to patronize. I prefer strip shopping centers
- :::where I can park close to the door of the store where I want to
- :::make a purchase.
-
- :: IF you can find parking, that is.
-
- :: If you have to park far away, then you have to walk as long as
- ::you would in a shopping mall -- probably longer -- and almost
- ::certainly across a street or two.
-
- :Not around here anyway. Strip centers have proportionately as much parking
- :lot space as enclosed malls with the advantage that the store doors open
- :directly on the lot instead of having to go to a Mall entrance and then
- :wend your way through a simulated downtown pedestrian way to the store
- :you want to patronize.
-
- That would be a good objection _only_ if one was guaranteed
- parking just in front of whatever store you wanted to shop in. C'mon,
- Gary Coffman, what makes you so sure you won't have any competition?
-
- :: And is walking inside a typical shopping mall REALLY that
- ::terrible a burden???
-
- :It is if your knees are shot and you're buying a heavy item. I will
- :admit that I do sometimes go over to the mall and sit and watch the
- :girls. (I'm not dead yet) :-)
-
- And I thought that you were a blue-collar worker :-)
-
- And what are shopping carts for, anyway? :-)
-
- Try visiting a shopping mall or two sometime.
-
- /Loren
-