"Krypsis" > wrote in message
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> On 11/05/2011 7:53 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> > wrote in message
>> ...
>>>
>>> "Julie > ha scritto nel messaggio>
>>>>> >
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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.

Many of us do not want to live that way. That is why we chose to live in
rural or suburban areas. We value our privacy, our yards, our ability to
grow a garden, etc.