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 Message 2690 
 conklin to John Levine 
 Re: A blog view of rapid transit. 
 17 May 14 14:13:42 
 
From: nilknocgeo@earthlink.net

"John Levine"  wrote in message
news:ll86aq$2s86$1@miucha.iecc.com...
>>> [I'll not mention recent Facebook postings on how disgusting rapid
>>> transit
>>> it if you ar3e one of the elite.]
>>>
>>> http://thefederalist.com/2014/05/15/road-diets-and-car-shami
g-the-lefts-war-on-transit-innovation/
>>> --
>
>>Imagine someone saying something nice about Car2Go, Uber and Lyft.  ...
>
> The key insights in this blog post appear to be that people on public
> transit smell bad, more parking and wider streets will solve our
> traffic problems, and people who can't afford to take a taxi
> everywhere don't matter.
>
>

You deliberately mislead with your posts.  Taxis, in particular, have been
artifically limited but Car2Go, etc., will provide transporation
inexpensively to where people want to go.  Fixed-rail schemes cannot do
this.

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