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- From: lazzaro@boom.CS.Berkeley.EDU (John Lazzaro)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Cars as "something better"
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- Date: 24 Dec 92 00:59:53 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.173025.6440@pbhya.PacBell.COM> <1992Dec23.211932.22655@ntmtv> <1992Dec24.003505.21930@s1.gov>
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- In article <1992Dec24.003505.21930@s1.gov> lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes>
- > On BART, I've never seen anyone use a laptop computer, but I
- >_have_ seen a lot of people reading.
-
- I see laptops and cellulars in use during rush hour, Berkeley-SF. Cellular
- phones cut out in the tunnel but seem to work fine on elevated sections,
- from my observations of others ...
-
- >
- > As for Wilson Heydt's colorful reactions, I am willing to
- >concede that a lot of city buses come rather close, at least for me.
-
- For every gross thing I see on MUNI [last night, someone whose diaper
- apparently leaked left a mess on a seat near the front of a 1], there
- are lots of fun interactions with strangers I would never meet if I
- didn't take buses. I think Heydt's reaction is much more of a
- city-suburb thing than a transit thing; the most difficult
- interactions in the city seem to happen walking on the street, not on
- transit. [actually, public laundromats are the scene of most of the
- difficult things that have happened to me, unlike a bus, its
- stationary, less people are around, and there is usually no employee
- on site]. Some people can deal with stuff like this and not have it
- bother them, other people don't want to and go live in Milpitas ...
-