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FloggingSully · 05-12-2008, 04:37 PM

"Highways get used..... Trains dont.

And dont try to say "If you build it, they will come." We HAD them. We like cars better. For all sorts of reasons.

Luckily there are still a few rational politicians left who know we can throw all the money in the world at trains here America, but AMERICANS JUST DONT WANT THEM. Get over it!"

-Highways get used because they are usually more convenient than trains, they are more convenient because trains don't exist most places. Have you ever met someone who lived in an area with good public transit (Boston, DC, NY, Chicago) and prefered commuting by car instead of train?

-We had them, we liked cars better because we didn't have the same congestion problems and cas was really cheap, as gas get's more expensive more people will want to ride public transit. My girlfriend rides a bus and a train to work everyday and says that they're getting more and more crowded everyday, so apparently some people want public transit. And there are plenty of people (myself included) who would love to have an option of riding public transit to work every day.

-Hopefully we'll have enough "rational politicians" to realize that people want public transit, if we invested as much money in public transit as we do in roads/highways we'd be about as worried about $4/gallon gas as the Europeans.

05-12-2008, 04:37 PM	#31 (permalink)
FloggingSully AA Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Maryland Posts: 732 Tournaments Joined: 0 Tournament Wins: 0	Re: Only the rich will drive everyday "Highways get used..... Trains dont. And dont try to say "If you build it, they will come." We HAD them. We like cars better. For all sorts of reasons. Luckily there are still a few rational politicians left who know we can throw all the money in the world at trains here America, but AMERICANS JUST DONT WANT THEM. Get over it!" -Highways get used because they are usually more convenient than trains, they are more convenient because trains don't exist most places. Have you ever met someone who lived in an area with good public transit (Boston, DC, NY, Chicago) and prefered commuting by car instead of train? -We had them, we liked cars better because we didn't have the same congestion problems and cas was really cheap, as gas get's more expensive more people will want to ride public transit. My girlfriend rides a bus and a train to work everyday and says that they're getting more and more crowded everyday, so apparently some people want public transit. And there are plenty of people (myself included) who would love to have an option of riding public transit to work every day. -Hopefully we'll have enough "rational politicians" to realize that people want public transit, if we invested as much money in public transit as we do in roads/highways we'd be about as worried about $4/gallon gas as the Europeans. __________________ There's no such thing as a pretty good aligator wrestler.