From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 14:23:23 MST
In a message dated 2/11/2003 3:06:30 PM Central Standard Time,
mlorrey@yahoo.com writes: Mass transit is only viable in areas which have
already been radically transformed by other socialist policies, like fuel and
other taxes, oppressive parking enforcement, and restrictions on construction
of private parking facilities. Successfully used public mass transit is a
paramount sign of a mature and ingrained socialist society.
Mike,
I had wondered about that. I only knew the estimated data here where
I live but I wondered if other areas had a different experience. On the
other hand the data I had wasn't even close -- the auto won hands down.
On the other hand while I used the El for my simple point A to point B
transit anytime an assignment carried me off the main route I almost always
had to use my car.
After listening to folks touting the advantages of mass transit and
seeing the force with which people resist switching from autos to mass
transit, I remember a comment made my my professor forty some years ago in
Industrial Engineering 101.
He was talking about people working as blue collars in factories but it seems
to apply here: "those folks can not only add and subtract, they can multiply
and divide."
Ron h.
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