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How Did I Miss This One?
"Scott en Aztlán" > wrote in message ... >By squeezing three > times as many cars on the highway, this technology could drastically > ease traffic congestion -- if only engineers could figure out a way to > get millions of drivers to buy these systems. The problem is not people buyng the technology, people are already buying similar technology when it is offered on cars. The problems is Luddite infested transportation organizations that want to go back to almost useless rail systemss. The car companies are designing the technology to be independent of the Luddite infested and very low levels o competence in Governments > > Suburban car culture traps women. Critics complain that mothers in the > suburbs are sentenced to long hours chauffeuring children to malls and > soccer games and piano lessons, which are tasks that do indeed require > a car. But so do most of their jobs. Talk to some women for a change to get a dose of reality. Very few of them are going to put their children on transit without the protection of an adult. Women won't even let their children ride bikes now even though that was the main way kids got around before all the TV scare stories. The transit also will not go to many of the places they are taking their children. Again you are describing a world that does not exist. > Drivers are getting a free ride. Yes, the government spends a lot more > money on highways than transit, but most of that money comes out of > the drivers' pockets. If you add up the costs of driving -- the car > owner's costs as well as the public cost of building and maintaining > highways and local streets, the salaries of police patrolling the > roads -- it works out to about 20 cents per passenger mile, and > drivers pay more than 19 of those cents, according to Cox. You are implying that transit is free that nobody pays for which of course is absurd. Transit is tens of times more expensive in both taxes and the cost of time. In your area, most of the taxes for transportation paid mainly by drivers is spent on transit, not car infrastructure. If we went to everyone using transit, sales taxes would have to go above 100% The total cost of driving is still cheaper than the total cost of transit per person transported. Bring in the cost of time into the equation and the total cost of driving including required tax support is far cheaper than transit. No surprise except to Luddites that never seem to understand that cost go down, not up as technology advances. Very old technology like transit inherently will be far more expensive. That is exactly what the technology evolution S curves say. New technology is better and cheaper than old technology or it will not replace that old technology. Even kids know this obvious fact that is a total mystery to Luddites. |
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