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

[Bret Kulakovich]

Agreed on all counts -

I appreciate my barometer reset on this issue - sorry to do it through 
all your efforts.

It just seems ridiculous. People feel they require a vehicle with 5 
times the output of the Wright flier to cart themselves to the same 
place everyone else is going each day, when 60 hp would do it. I don't 
deny them their individuality or their free will. It just seems like a 
huge waste. I don't begrudge people who live deep on dirt roads or 
mountainsides or suffer our ill-tempered infrastructure.

Here's me, however, sitting on the commuter rail everyday - the one who 
actually reads the annual reports left on our seats each year - and 
knows that his buying a pass is merely a "contribution" toward the cost 
of my ridership - one quarter to be precise.

And the trains are usually packed 3 stops before the end of the line. 
Something just doesn't seem right.

]3


On Mar 23, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Mike Lorrey wrote:

>
> --- 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/
> _______________________________________________
> extropy-chat mailing list
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat
>