Yep, it's the price of freedom. Problem is, what happens to _my_
freedom when everyone suddenly decides to use my street at a commuter
cut-through? If I move out to the idyllic, pastoral 'burbs to get
away from it all, then I just become one more moron toting a barge
past other people's homes on the way to work.
I'm tellin' youse guys, the solution is that everyone drives
spridgets. I've thought this out! Really!
Jeff
Advisor, Clifton Corridor Transportation Management Authority
Transportation Chairman, Clairmont Heights Civic Association
Transportation Chairman, North Decatur Heights Neighborhood Association
At 8:28 AM -0800 3/9/00, type79@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>This should open a can of worms.
>
>Despite my love for the automobile, it is the most inefficient form of mass
>transportation.
>
>The U.S. allowed the automobile to take precedence over every other
>form of mass
>transportation and we continue to pay it's price: the cost to build
>and maintain
>more and more roads, massive parking areas, traffic, pollution,
>SUV's and pickups
>to transport 1 person, the loss of town centers, high insurance
>costs, high fuel
>costs which is minor in the scheme of things, and the list goes on.
>
>Fuel prices will go up
>And fuel prices will eventually go down.
>
>The masses will continue to drive to the malls in their scaled down
>school buses
>and complain that they can't park in the front row of the 10 acres of macadam.
>
>Teenagers will continue to work at part time jobs to buy insurance
>and a car so
>that they can get to work to pay for the insurance and maintenance on their
>car........
>
>Rural residents will continue to complain about the narrow roads
>near the 100 unit
>development they just moved in to and press for 30' wide streets in
>their place.
>
>And on, and on, and on...
>
>IMO, Our transportation problems in the U.S. extend far beyond the
>cost of fuel.
>
>Jay Fishbein
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