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- From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Cars, Cities and Choices
- Keywords: Cars Transit Cities
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.051718.682@s1.gov>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 05:17:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul31.000219.9704@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul29.222232.6070@s1.gov> lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
- >>In article <1992Jul29.144248.2912@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
- :: 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?
- :
- :Queing theory. On any given day, my odds of finding a parking place
- :in front of the store I wish to patronize is proportional to the number
- :of other customers at the strip center who simulaneously want to shop
- :at that store instead of another store in the center. At the Mall,
- :*everyone* wants to park next to the Mall entrance regardless of which
- :store they want to patronize. Therefore I'm almost always going to get
- :a better parking place at the strip center.
-
- Sounds like your reasoning is terribly mixed up about what
- makes parking space available. It is the _absence_ of others trying to
- shop at the store you want to shop at that makes parking spaces
- available, and how do you guarantee that?
-