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- From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
- Subject: Re: Cost of public vs. private transportation
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:34:30 GMT
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- In article <22072@venera.isi.edu> finn@dalek.isi.edu (Greg Finn) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul29.014145.20843@s1.gov> lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
- :
- :: When doing the car calculations, was it assumed that one had
- ::now competition as one was traveling by car?
-
- : My understanding was that they were measured against same
- :time-of-day trip times over a similar route. No freeways then
- :remember. It seemed fair but I never read the study itself, just a
- :two-page summary as reported.
-
- I guess one would have to look at the whole thing.
-
- And when I specified "no competition", I had in mind an
- absence of other drivers. Traffic jams cause considerable slowdowns.
-
- And if one drives, one's time is occupied controlling the car,
- while if one travels by public transit, or is driven by someone else,
- one is free to do other things. Is _that_ ever figured?
-
- ::It would be interesting
- ::to compare the Red Line timetables to those one works out from
- ::traveling in present-day LA's parking-lot freeways.
-
- : To be fair you would need to compare against a mass transit
- :system that carried the same volume of people. Hard to do.
-
- Really?
-
- One can do this in several places.
-
- For example, in the Bay Area, one can compare commuting by
- BART between Walnut Creek or Hayward or El Cerrito to San Francisco
- and driving the distance. Going under the Bay by BART certainly beats
- out fighting all the traffic on the Bay Bridge.
-
-