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- From: jeremy@classic.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon)
- Subject: Re: Cars as "something better"
- Message-ID: <ua965a8@sgi.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Dec24.170039.23890@pbhya.PacBell.COM> <1523@dosbears> <1hvfruINNdlm@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:32:26 GMT
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- In article <1hvfruINNdlm@agate.berkeley.edu>, lazzaro@boom.CS.Berkeley.EDU (John Lazzaro) writes:
- > In article <u915dm4@sgi.sgi.com> jeremy@classic.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon) writes:
- > >
- > >It still hasn't been established whether that 770000 number is boardings,
- >
- > That's 830,000, the 770000 number I quoted was outdated.
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- Whatever. I just repeated what was in the messages I read.
-
- > >or trips. Most transit agencies just count boardings. MTC has counted
- > >both in their studies. So if you pay a fare and transfer twice, you
- > >are counted three times.
- >
- > But in MUNI`s case it really doesn't matter so much, because one
- > (usually electric) vehicle gets you from the Financial District to any
- > neighborhood, and the neighboorhoods are small enough that the walk to
- > your apartment or house is a few blocks. When 800,000 people live in
- > 49 square miles, the need for transfers goes way down.
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- Not everyone goes to the financial district, you know, even among
- commuters.
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- What does it matter, anyway?
-
- jeremy
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