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   Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble Phi to Chief of Quixotic Enterprises   
   Re: Myth: The motor car is the ultimate    
   11 Dec 14 21:33:40   
   
   From: thetibetanmonkey@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, December 11, 2014 11:49:43 AM UTC-5, Free Spirit, Chief of   
   Quixotic Enterprises wrote:   
   >   
   > I'm all for multimodal transportation, not because I love public   
   transportation, but because it gives me options. The way the sprawls are built   
   in America, no public transportation can be very effective. What can be very   
   effective is a combination of    
   train and bicycle. I plan to be doing that pretty soon, since this DecoBike in   
   Miami Beach is totally dysfunctional. I waited 5 years but that was long   
   enough. That was a cruel joke.   
   >    
   > America is made for the car and only Armageddon can change that.   
      
   There's an appropriate name for it: Carmageddon.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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