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- From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Cars as "something better"
- Message-ID: <D2150035.mafnno@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 07:32:08 GMT
- Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Organization: Peirce Software
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- In article <1992Dec23.211932.22655@ntmtv> (ba.transportation), adrian@ntmtv.UUCP (Adrian Brandt) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec23.173025.6440@pbhya.PacBell.COM>, whheydt@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt) writes:
- > |> Some people find riding on various forms of transit to be anywhere
- > |> from unpleasant to physically sickening to physically dangerous.
- >
- > In addition to common sight of seeing people doing work on the train
- > I'm really starting to see a lot of laptop computer users. One guy
- > I used to see a lot would get on and find a vacant "double" (a pair
- > of double seats facing each other). On the opposite seat he would
- > set up his computer, put down a mouse pad and hook up his mouse, and
- > spread out some notes and manuals. Then he would put on his walkman
- > and start working.
- >
- > Sometimes, when I'm riding CalTrain, and I gaze around at all the
- > people working or grading papers or reading or sleeping or gazing
- > out one of the windows while muching on some food and having a
- > beer or just talking to friends or business associates (in person
- > or on their cellular phones) or just sleeping, I think about the
- > comments I sometimes read here that say things like "some people
- > find riding on various forms of transit to be anywhere from un-
- > pleasant to physically sickening to physically dangerous" and smile.
-
- I'd venture to say that by observing the people riding on a transit
- system, you've already selected those who have rejected it for whatever
- reason.
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