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Originally Posted by rmyers
Sorry man...I have major propblems with your assumptions.
#1 Are you telling us that there are not enough mass-transit options in CA now. Does this mean if I go to get on a public bus, it will be full and I have to stand up? I don't live in California, but if I did, and they wanted to raise my taxes to increase public transportation, I would want to see actual proof that the current system cannot handle the needs and as a result, buses, trams, and other forms of public transportation or just to full and people are having to wait too long, and the current infrastructure is over-burdened. What good does 100 more empty buses do for the transportation system or climate change?
Ron
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Just to let you know, CA and LA in particular have AWEFUL public transit. I think the only city I know of that has a decent system is San Francisco. It's not just that they don't have enough buses for the people, its that all the equipment and the system itself across the board has no money to deal with its currect self, much less modernize and keep up with the increase of population. Las Vegas is in a similar situation. We don't even have a subway system (which imo we should). Our busing system is actually pretty good. But we don't have trains. Only other form of transport really is a few mile long monorail on the strip. We are now hitting the point that LA did a while back with the fact that our highway system simply cannot hold the traffic. I can't remember the specific number, but billions of gallons of gas are wasted idling in traffic each year, and LA was the #1 contributor. Want gas prices to drop a bit? This is a good way to do it. Yet... somehow places like Japan who have 10 times the population concentration are able to deal with this. Why? Because they have advanced mass transit. Hell I remember talks of a bullet train between LA and Las Vegas that could cover the distance in 2 hours. The project would save millions in gas and pay for itself within 10 years or something, but they never could come up with the funds for it.