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Originally posted by Datajack Franit
Still, this looks like an awful lot of space that could have a better use
Still, this looks like an awful lot of space that could have a better use
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Yep. Fewer lanes, more cars.
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Any technology as heavily subsidized as the car were would obviously gain in traction.Originally posted by DanS
In the early 1900s, even my home town of 1,400 in Ohio had passenger rail. But about 80 years ago, the station shut down. Why would it have shut down, if it was the best way to do personal transportation?
It's obvious that cars have been the way to go for about 80 years now.
Trains are better than cars for moving large numbers of people. Obviosuly unimportant po-dunnk places like your hometown don't have enough people to be worth train service. We are talking cities here, not holes in the map.If you don't like reality, change it! me
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Traffic taking twice as long! More smog, higher rates of lung diseases, more fat asses too! Yeah!Originally posted by DanS
Yep. Fewer lanes, more cars.
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They probably would if they saw a demonstration of it.Originally posted by SlowwHand
Sterling dissertation on life in Copenhagen.
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More smog= stop driving SUVs unless you cross swamps for your daily commuteI will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.
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Foiled again.Originally posted by Thue
That is only part of the Copenhagen train system. The other part:
Also, there is an extensive bus coverage.Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
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Originally posted by DanS
It's obvious that cars have been the way to go for about 80 years now.
I missed this jewel. Don't complain if your obese country's money goes to Saudi Arabia for building mosques promoting wahabism worldwide, inciting Jihad and financing terrorist groups flying planes through buildings. In our times, mass transit is not just a way of protecting the environment.I will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.
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Heh, we could go on forever on the economic merits of cars vs. trains, which have and will fluctuate with time.
But vehicles are about more than just getting from point A to B, they're very much part of one's lifestyle.
If mass transit spent a similar amount in advertising and styling as carmakers did, perhaps there'd be more GePaps and fewer DanS's in the USA.Visit First Cultural Industries
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Try to keep in mind, that these PRT's are for dense commercial/industrial areas of the city - not the entire city.
Places like here in Singapore, where almost everyone lives in a high-rise building or works in one, PRT's would be ideal, all that road space would suddenly become available as well. Singapore is one city that does not need cars.be freeComment
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Oh, I missed that:
Originally posted by DanS
The fact is that for about 80 years, the US has taken the enlightened approach and embraced the automobile.
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Heaven help us. GePap's a chronic depressive. He might as well be a Slav.Originally posted by
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perhaps there'd be more GePaps and fewer DanS's in the USA.
Besides, I don't own a car. Just pointing out obvious facts.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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