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- From: henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Cars as "something better"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.234547.26104@ads.com>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 23:45:47 GMT
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- Organization: Advanced Decision Systems; a div of Booz, Allen & Hamilton
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- jeremy@classic.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon) wrote:
- ->> 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.
- ->
- ->Not everyone goes to the financial district, you know, even among
- ->commuters.
-
- well, they should: it's the best transfer point in the city. i ride
- the caltrain up from mtn view regularly ... upon "detraining" (puke),
- i walk outside the caltrain station, and a #32 embarcadero bus is less
- than 60 seconds away. this drops me at market and embarcadero; i cross
- the embarcadero and walk one block, and there are several options
- which will take me home.
-
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- # henry mensch / booz, allen & hamilton, inc. / <henry@ads.com>
- # "fight the real enemy." -- sinead o'connor, and many others.
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