On 11/05/2011 7:53 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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>> "Julie > ha scritto nel messaggio>
>>>> >
>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>> Europeans, Brits precisely, wonder why US citizens are so irked at gas
>>>>>> prices.
>>>>>>
>>>> My closest British friend commutes 1.25 hours each way to London. He
>>>> reads and studies on the train.
>>>
>>> Ah... Train! Something we don't have here! Yes some big cities have
>>> things like that. But not here. If you don't live in the city proper
>>> (Seattle) you are pretty much screwed if you need public transportation.
>>> In some areas you can take a bus and get to the city and back. But in
>>> some cases there is no bus on Sunday and if you are taking a bus after
>>> hours, forget it.
>>
>> Then it may be time to do something to correct those problems. We once
>> had all the public transport other countries have, but we ripped it out in
>> favor of cars, ever bigger, that use too much energy for the modern
>> situation. It can't last forever, right? So spend the money to fix the
>> situation which will also goose the economy.
>
> I don't see how we possibly could. It's just not feasible. The way the
> streets are laid out here, people are just too spread out. Many of our
> cities here are hurting financially. They can ill afford to do needed road
> repairs. Putting in a transit system is certainly not in the budget.

That's because your cities are built around the car. Might be time for a
rethink on urban planning.

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