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- From: whheydt@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Cars as "something better"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.165429.23735@pbhya.PacBell.COM>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 16:54:29 GMT
- References: <92358.31156.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> <1992Dec23.231106.12750@pbhye.PacBell.COM>
- Reply-To: whheydt@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
- Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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- In article <1992Dec23.231106.12750@pbhye.PacBell.COM> mjvande@PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman) writes:
- >Not really. Transit SHOULD be subsidized. Private transport should not,
- >obviously.
-
- No, Mike. It is *not* obvious. Rather, it is your own bias showing.
-
- >-We *do* need to find ways to make cars pollute less and use renewable energy
- >-sources. I won't debate that. But it must be a transition. We need to start
- >-the transition ASAP, but that doesn't mean junking all cars. Sorry.
- >
- >All PRIVATE cars. Rentals are OK.
-
- Mike, I suggest that you start a petition campaign to put this on the
- ballot. That way, yoou'll find out how many people agree with you.
- You may be surprised at the answer...
-
- >-Note that the rail options take longer than the bus option which takes longer
- >-than the auto option. Is rail transit faster? Only when no transfers are
- >-involved. And how useful is transfer time? It's hard to make useful time of
- >-transfers by reading or sleeping.
- >
- >I read while walking to BART, waiting, & riding. No wasted time. Exercise is
- >also valuable.
-
- What constitutes 'wasted' time is a subjective decision. You can no
- more tell what is wasted by someone else than they can tell the same
- of you. You are letting your own biases get in the way of your
- judgement.
-
- --Hal
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