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|    Xho Jingleheimerschmidt to Questor    |
|    Re: a dozen miscellaneous thoughts    |
|    31 Aug 21 13:50:42    |
      From: xhoster@gmail.com              On 8/30/21 6:37 AM, Questor wrote:              > I think that in cities that are largely laid out in a grid pattern, public       > transit buses should travel in a square wave pattern up and down on the       avenues       > and back and forth on the cross streets. it Seems to me there would be a bus       > coming along every few minutes, and one could get anywhere in the grid with       just       > one transfer from an avenue bus to a cross street bus (or vice versa).              I'd rather transfer buses and get there in 40 minutes than spend 36       hours on a single Hilbert curve.              >       > At such point that electric vehicles overwhelmingly dominate the market and       > internal combustion vehicles fade away, the trope of committing suicide by       > locking oneself in the garage and running the engine will disappear as well.              You can still go stick your head in a oven. Though now you have to turn       it on first.              Xho              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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