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Stop whinging, we're paying nearly $9 a gallon on London...get over it
Yeah, that $9.00 per gallon has about $6 of tax in it.
Garfield1966
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What I would not give for public transportation. Any public transportation. I live 12 miles from work. Straight shot on the freeway and there is no way for me to get to work. I'm not talking about the public transportation would be inconvenient, I'm talking about the fact that there is not a bus anywhere near my house.
It is inexcusable for a city of this size to not have anything. They will waste who knows how many millions in a new stadium for a stupid football team but they will not invest in our future. Gotta love this coutry.
It is inexcusable for a city of this size to not have anything. They will waste who knows how many millions in a new stadium for a stupid football team but they will not invest in our future. Gotta love this coutry.
It would be, if public funds are used to build a sports stadium, and not a decent public transportation system.
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jimntx
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In a car-crazy state like Texas you are wrong to assume that there are always side roads. 😀 When I lived in the Houston area, the only roads that went all the way through to anywhere were the freeways. If you took the "side roads", eventually you found yourself at a dead end in a bad neighborhood.
The DFW area isn't any better from what I've seen. I commute to STL. I've been using our new DAL service whenever possible. I live approx. 7 miles almost due south from DAL as the crow flies or the car can drive. To use public transportation I would have to walk 2 blocks from my condo, take a bus all the way into downtown Dallas which is 5 miles north and east of me, then transfer to another bus to go back north and west to Love Field. I actually checked with the bus people--the best connections would take me over an hour to get there when it takes me about 15 minutes to drive even in rush hour.
But then, the highway and cement contractors contribute a lot of money to our esteemed representatives in Congress to make sure that public transportation money in Texas goes only to building more roads.
kirkpatrick
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People don't avoid public transportation. Here in the New York area, 4 million ride the subways daily. The Long Island Railroad carries 7 million per month (233,000 per day), and if you throw in the other commuter trains (PATH, NJ Transit, Metro North, not to mention thousands of buses) the number is astronomical.
What makes it work? Well, first of all, the systems have to be in place. What makes it possible for the systems to be in place? Answer: POPULATION DENSITY.
The DFW area, and most American cities which have grown large in the last few decades, are simply too spread out to make real public transportation work. Think of the number of miles of track and the number of stations that would be necessary to cover the DFW area even half as well as the NYC subway system does. Train stations have to be close to where you live, and close to where you want to go, and trains have to be frequent before anyone will abandon their cars. With today's environmental impact studies, et al, you won't see any such thing soon.
The answer is smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles, which exist today (I'm no one to brag; I own a Honda Odyssey and an Acura TL). Only high gas prices will force people in this direction.
MK
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"The answer is smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles, which exist today (I'm no one to brag; I own a Honda Odyssey and an Acura TL). Only high gas prices will force people in this direction."
So let me get this straight. The president and congress says I just need to stay home more and you say I need to buy an import ricer to get better mileage instead of drive my Chevy half-ton to work my fields and maintain my property. All this while Exxon reports the 5th largest quarterly profit EVER of any company on record in history!!!
Give me a break
Sheep I tell you, sheep lead to slaughter!
"The answer is smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles, which exist today (I'm no one to brag; I own a Honda Odyssey and an Acura TL). Only high gas prices will force people in this direction."
So let me get this straight. The president and congress says I just need to stay home more and you say I need to buy an import ricer to get better mileage instead of drive my Chevy half-ton to work my fields and maintain my property. All this while Exxon reports the 5th largest quarterly profit EVER of any company on record in history!!!
Give me a break
Sheep I tell you, sheep lead to slaughter!
kirkpatrick
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Are we talking about excessive company profits or rapid transit? You obviously missed my entire point.
I stand by my post.
MK
I stand by my post.
MK
Garfield1966
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Aside from the fact that it gets upwards of 100 degrees here in DFW during the summer with very high humidity (I would not want to offend my co-workers after a ride in that heat), there are no side roads that are safe to ride on. I have yet to see any roads here with bike lanes much less sidewalks (and last I heard its illegal to ride a bike on a side walk. Also considering that I work an afternoon shift, after sweating my ass off coming into work, I would have to ride home in the dark with all these crazy TX drivers. No thanks. I think I'll pass.
Garfield1966
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I agree that subways will never exist here in TX but I was thinking some thing a little less grand. Surface buses. My idea was to have a bus system on the free ways. I live 1 mile off of a free way exit. My idea was to have buses running up and down the freeways with a stop at each exit. They could set up parking lots at each exit so people could drive to the nearest freeway exit, park and hop on a bus. We have freeways going everywhere. Most cities have internal transportation (Dallas has DART buses). HDQ sits right off the freeway. They could have little transport shuttles going from the bus stop to HDQ. SOC is in eye sight of the freeway and I could walk (depending on the drop off point. It’s a cheap (compared to building a trans system from scratch) and the amount of relief it would produce would be phenomenal.
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