Hi Laura
I live in the UK and they are trying to educate us in sharing or using
public transport, for me to get to work on time I would have to leave nearly
an hour early and stand out side the locked gates for some 20 mins or get to
work 5 mins late! Share right no one else lives any where near me, there are
people I could pick up along the way but they don't like my precision timing
(arriving just in time to get to the clock). I like you believe the way to a
drivers co-operation is public transport of an efficient nature (some
comfort would be nice also), the last time I went on the local bus it was a
3.5 ton van with windows in the body and every bump in the road had you
airborne! Me? convenience, comfort, yea too true!
Graham.
----- Original Message -----
From: Laura Gharazeddine <Laura.G@141.com>
To: <AHVentures@aol.com>; <suzie_bear@hotmail.com>;
<Spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 3:25 AM
Subject: Re: FW: FW: Great American Gas Out!]
>
> Sometimes people don't carpool, not because of not being "cool" or
whatever,
> but because there might not be anyone else who lives in theor direction.
Or,
> it could be that you need to be able to pick up the kids after work. Or
take
> them to their dentist/docter appts/after school activities/personal
errands
> etc...Or, as in my case, there was no one else who worked my shift-if I
> needed a ride, I would have to wait 2 hours or more.
>
> Bus? In my area, the buses are really terrible. Most of the time, when I
got
> off work at 10pm, the buses had stopped running 3 hours previously. I used
> to catch a bus at 6:30 am to get to work by 9pm-and in a place that was
> actually only 20-30 min. from home!
>
> Now, I don't work, and all my errands are usually in a 3 mile radius from
> home. However, the people I date usually live and hour or more from
here-we
> take turns driving-sometimes who ever it is will come down here, sometimes
I
> go up there. Car pool in this situation? Yeah, that's convenient!
>
> I would take the train, but then there's the deadline-miss that last train
> and I'm stuck in L.A. And the neighbourhood where the station is, even I,
> and I'm pretty brave, wouldn't go there after dark-let alone leave my car
> there! And it's a half hour from my house!
>
> Maybe, it's not just a matter of people being ok with carpooling-maybe
it's
> a thing of improving mass transit and in the case of employers-at least
> consider the scheduling of employees. (I once got written up at American
> Express for asking someone if they could drop me off at the garage on
their
> way home-and they were passing there anyway! I got the ride. The co-worker
> protested my being written up-but it stayed on my record anyway!)
>
> Just my 2 cents
>
> Laura
>
> Vita brevis est: rapide agite, vigore strigate!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <AHVentures@aol.com>
> To: <suzie_bear@hotmail.com>; <Spitfires@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 6:56 PM
> Subject: Re: FW: FW: Great American Gas Out!]
>
>
> >
> > I've always maintained that, as much as people b***h & moan, they will
> still
> > pay the price when it comes to driving their cars. The negative (as
they
> > perceive it) effect on their image to others that they are carpooling,
or
> not
> > driving around in a tank with a bunch of other people is too great, not
to
> > mention that, as they see it, isn't "cool." Glad that I have my
> relatively
> > fuel efficient Spit to carry me about!
> > Just my .02 worth on the soapbox!
> > Andy H.
>
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