"The Cook" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 11 May 2011 02:53:22 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>>"Giusi" > wrote in message
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>>> "Julie Bove" > ha scritto nel messaggio >
>>>>> "Giusi" >
>>>>>> 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.
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>>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.
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> Subways. Check out DC Metro.

Again, that's a major city. I did take the subway in DC.