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- From: kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown)
- Subject: Re: Clinton, Gore, and the End of the Automobile Age
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.023700.27438@nuchat.sccsi.com>
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- References: <1992Jul23.230804.1294@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <Bs13Bu.tJ@quake.sylmar.ca.us> <1992Jul28.205614.11664@aero.org>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 02:37:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul28.205614.11664@aero.org> foy@aero.org (Richard Foy) writes:
- >In article <Bs13Bu.tJ@quake.sylmar.ca.us> brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder) writes:
- >...
- >>Again, it's another argument AGAINST subways. In LA if the trains shut down
- >>(and there are a couple of lines) there's no significant impact at all.
- >..
- >>--Brian
- >
- >Of course the main reason that there is no impact is that no one can
- >go anywhere in LA anyway. The freeways are a parking lot. The trains
- >are non-existant etc.
- >
- >I go out to go somewhere besides the two blocks to the local store
- >and at almost any time of the day the freeway traffic is moving quite
- >slowly.
- >
- >Give me a good public transportation system any day over the freeways
- >of LA. I have lived here a long time and seen many billions of dollars
- >spent on freeways and seen the traffic problems almost monotonically
- >getting worse.
-
- But you've seen the population grow monotonically as well, haven't you??
-
- Whether the delays are in the long lines to the overcrowded train/subway
- system, or in the traffic on the freeways, the delays will be there when
- the travelling population overwhelms the transit system, *regardless* of
- what that transit system is.
-
- My (admittedly uninformed) opinion is that L.A. has transit problems because
- it has population problems.
-
- >Richard Foy Standard Disclaimer
-
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- Kevin Brown
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