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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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