Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)
Steve Lamb wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
>> Would be half that if LA had not destroyed it's public transport in the
>> 1940s and 1950s. 45 minutes is a long commute by anybody's standards.
>
> Uh, no, Paul it wouldn't. It is pretty much physically impossible to
> get from Long Beach to Pasadena (specifically the doors I am thinking of)
> in under 2 hours no matter how good the public transportation is. About
> the only exception would be an express that drops off a block from my
> house and from my office. Fat chance of that happening.
You won't know until you go to the transit planning meetings and ask.
> Adding any stops lowers the average speed by quite a bit and we're
> talking a 35-38 mile difference. Not to mention that the nearest stops at
> the time added just over a mile or so of walking that's 15-20m of your
> time just shot which is a hair under 1/2 the time it took me on my
> motorcycle.
Most people are not suicidal and would rather not dodge Californian drivers
while lane splitting, either, and unless you're on a motorcycle, LA's
average freeway speed over the entire county on any given 24 hour period is
14 MPH. Given traffic doesn't move faster than what you say public transit
does anyway, why not throw a lot more high capacity vehicles in the mix to
pick up people while they're stuck stopped in traffic anyway?
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