Re: when 70% of drivers are banned from the road

"George Conklin" <nil@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Jack May" <jack.may@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> <gl4316@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>, "Jack May"
>> > <jack.may@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >
>> > Your comments only apply to North America, where transit systems are
>> > designed to be failures by consultants who drive everywhere.
>> >
>> > In the rest of the world, transit systems have been developed that
are
>> > competitive with driving, and therefore render these expensive
highway
>> > systems unnecessary in the first place.
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>> What the hell are you talking about.   In Europe cars are almost 90% 
of
> the
>> travel and transit is only a little over 10%.  What you are saying is
>> totally nuts.
>>
>> As you look at poorer countries, the amount of transit or motorcycles 
>> goes
>> up, but car usage goes up as individual income goes up.   In the very
>> poorest countries they can't even afford transit and people walk for
most
>> things which of course keeps them poor.
>>
>> Even in extremely dense Asian countries, the percent of travel using
> transit
>> continues to drop.  As I have said before, transit market share all
over
> the
>> world is dropping 10% to 15% per decade.   No where , except in
isolated
>> cases, is transit seen as superior to roads and a replacement for
roads.
>>
>>
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>   The comments are absurd and I think the poster knows it. However, he
> remains compulsively addicted to wishes not facts.

You're right.  Jack's comments are wishful thinking.