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- Newsgroups: bc.general
- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!cs.ubc.ca!fornax!jstrickl
- From: jstrickl@cs.sfu.ca (James Strickland)
- Subject: Re: Car culture
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.205040.5967@cs.sfu.ca>
- Keywords: cars, public transit, SkyTrain
- Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <maoNuB2w164w@ham.almanac.bc.ca> <1er8q0INN513@cs.ubc.ca> <1erel9INNhs9@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca>
- Distribution: bc
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:50:40 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- In article <1erel9INNhs9@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> ewong@ucs.ubc.ca (Eldon Wong) writes:
- >In article <1er8q0INN513@cs.ubc.ca> coatta@cs.ubc.ca (Terry Coatta) writes:
- >
- >[other stuff deleted]
- >>
- >>Make the transit system more convenient (a principle consideration of
- >>which is speed) than automobiles and people will CHOOSE to use it.
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- An extensive SkyTrain system is definitely the way to do this, IMHO.
- The SkyTrain averages better than 50 km/h over the entire distance
- (cruising speed is 80 km/h) of the current line, something which just
- cannot be done by car unless a humungous highway were built.
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-
- >I would love to save the wear
- >and tear of everyday driving on my car(s). I have already "worn" out one
- >car with the commuting that I do :-); and cars don't come cheap.
- >Unfortunately, at the moment, taking public transit is not as easily
- >feasible for me. I am eagerly waiting for the time when/if the proposed
- >Skytrain route from Coquitlam Centre into UBC will be finished. I will
- >indeed take public transit when that is available (if I am still working at
- >UBC by then :-) . Assuming it will take about 1 hour of travel each way,
- >along with the availability of a Park and Ride lot, everything would work
- >out perfectly.
-
-
- Judging by the number of people posting from UBC saying "you can't get
- there from here", it seems the demand is there for a SkyTrain line to UBC :-)
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