Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)
On 2 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:09:18PM -0500, judd@wadsworth.org wrote:
>> On 1 Mar, Steve Lamb wrote:
>> >
>> > Er... in what reality? Pretty much every major metro area that
>> > has tried public transportation it has ended up not really
>> > improving things, costing more than projected and has all around
>> > been a serious financial sink-hole. Are there exceptions, sure, but
>> > exceptions to a general rule of failure do not make a sound case
>> > for universal acceptance.
>> >
>>
>> Care to back that up with some statistics?
>>
> Here is a list of cities to which I have travelled that attempted to
> put public transportation in place which still have massivley
> attrocious traffic problems (hint: that is an indicator that enough
> people use the public transportation systems):
>
> Seattle, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Miami, Orlando,
> Tampa, Jacksonville (though they have improved more than most),
> Atlanta
>
I asked for statistics, not personal experience/opinion.
Specifically, to back up the claim "pretty much every metro area"
that has tried public transportation has not really improved things
despite large expense. Your anecdotal impressions do not answer the
question.
-Chris
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