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Krypsis

On 12/05/2011 2:57 AM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
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>> In >, says...
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>>> > wrote in message
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>>>>> 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.
>>
>> Works in London, Paris, Tokyo.
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> Well 2 of those cities did have the benefit of being rebuilt from scratch 65
> years ago.
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> Paul
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I don't think so. The damage wrought upon them was repaired but they
certainly weren't flattened. Maybe you are thinking of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. Now they were flattened and had to be rebuilt from the ground up.

Krypsis