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   From: jclarkeusenet@cox.net   
      
   In article ,   
   droleary@8usenet2013.subsume.com says...   
   >   
   > In article ,   
   >  Greg Goss  wrote:   
   >   
   > > I'm not sure how the magic keyword "fractals" applies here.  The   
   > > journey has a fractal nature, but nobody has explained a technology   
   > > that uses that fractal nature.   
   >   
   > One fractal concept is space filling curves.  Those are *exactly* the   
   > way you should be planning to serve an area with transit systems.  It   
   > requires no great new technology to accomplish, just a bit of improved   
   > logistics.   
   >   
   > > I don't mind walking 100 feet or so between steps of the journey, but   
   > > I don't like the half-mile walks and long waits that current public   
   > > transit requires.   
   >   
   > That's my point; we don't currently *require* that, but we *have* that   
   > because the wrong people are deciding what gets implemented.  It could   
   > be argued that the whole split between sci-fi utopia vs. dystopia comes   
   > down to not technology changes, but whether or not the idiots in charge   
   > get booted out the door.   
      
   Ok, pick a community, say, for example, "Enfield, CT", and show your   
   transit map for that town superimposed on the Google Maps map of it.   
      
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