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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

CrispyQ

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1. There was a time when the roads weren't so crowded & were maintained.

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Wed Oct 7, 2015, 10:23 AM

Oct 2015

People weren't inclined to take public transportation if they had a car as an option. Now, roads are a mess & during rush hour some highways are like a parking lot. Why not use that time to sleep, read, surf the Internet, talk to your companion, instead of dealing with the headache of driving? Plus owning a car is expensive.

I didn't know about the regulations limiting what can be near high speed rail. Interesting.

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Survey: two out of three of Americans likely to use High-Speed Rail in USA [View all] marmar Oct 2015 OP

There was a time when the roads weren't so crowded & were maintained. CrispyQ Oct 2015 #1

Adam Smith was the first economist that said no passenger service has ever paid for itself... happyslug Oct 2015 #2