[extropy-chat] Public Transportation (was suitcase nukes)

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Patrick Wilken <Patrick.Wilken at Nat.Uni-Magdeburg.DE> wrote:
> On 23 Mar 2005, at 16:44, spike wrote:
> > Bret, out here in Taxifornia, the average rail train is carrying
> > one person, perhaps two.  I do not exaggerate.  Often we will
> > see a mile of cars backed up waiting for a commuter train to
> > pass with two passengers.
> 
> Hey Spike:
> 
> I don't know what the average train line is like where you live, but 
> when I was living in Pasadena the newly opened Gold line was running
> a 
> brisk business. That surprised me, as the very nature of LA tends to 
> overwhelm any possibility of good public transport.

I wouldn't mind this mass transit stuff if it was self supporting.
Instead, gas taxes are spent on passenger rail infrastructure to the
tune of a new BMW every couple years for each new mass transit rider.
Those riders are certainly NOT paying their way.

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com


		
__________________________________ 
Do you Yahoo!? 
Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site!
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/