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Originally Posted by Pete F.
Didn’t your blessed mother tell you to be careful what you wish for?
Lewis Mumford predicted in 1958 that Americans would discover that the highway program will, eventually, wipe out the very area of freedom that the private motorcar promised to retain for them. This warning has come to pass. Today, the car embodies the freedom to wait in traffic. Transportation choices hardly exist. Viable transit systems exist in only a few big cities, service is usually infrequent, inconvenient, and expensive, and is being drastically undermined by fare increases and service cutbacks. Gasoline is one of the few things that are cheaper today in real dollars than 20 years ago. Mass transit travel is many times more expensive. Development patterns make transit travel difficult, even for those who prefer it, and unavailable to most.
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I’m sorry pete, we don’t like public transportation. and it’s not because public transportation isn’t state of the art. It’s not because of cost. we just prefer driving ourselves. that’s our culture. i don’t say that because it serves my agenda (!that’s not a conservative talking point) , i say it because it’s true.
here in CT we spent hundreds of millions of dollars paving 9 miles of road and built a busway into hartford. there’s no traffic, as only the buses can ride in it. the buses are cheap to ride, subsidized by the state. they are state of the art low emission buses. and nobody rides them.