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- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Save the Planet and the Economy at the Same time!
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- Message-ID: <725277144snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- References: <23DEC199214212320@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 09:52:24 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <23DEC199214212320@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov> bschlesinger@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov writes:
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- > It depends what you need time for. If you need the time to read,
- > fine. But you can't do shopping, run household errands, or pick up
- > the kids from day care while you are sitting on mass transit.
-
- Agreed, especially on being multi-dimensional on this matter. I bought
- land here in Armadale not two years ago, down here at the far extremity
- of the urban transit system and therefore very cheap. Since that time
- the fast electric light rail has been completed, and my original idea
- was that it would be so much easier and cheaper to get to my North Perth
- office by train than driving up the freeway.
-
- However, there are also phone lines here and instead of commuting I
- simply relocated my office (saving $650.00 per month) and set up an
- Internet node here instead. The new rail system has also added to the
- value of the land, so I am financially far better off right now in
- terms of both the total planning strategy for this area and my own
- response to it (without having to join the local council or lobby to
- have the development policy bent in my favour).
-
- If I must go out to a job I have the option of driving or taking the
- train, whichever is most economical and convenient at the time. If a
- client wants me to go bush on a job, they send a cab to the airport
- where they will have an aircraft waiting. Otherwise I am 17 minutes
- from Murdoch University, 20 minutes from Curtin, and 40 minutes from
- UWA. The rest of the work (increasingly) can be done via electronic
- mail and file transfer between our respective computers for collating
- or data analysis, even sending data files up to one of the mainframes
- at UWA interactively from this terminal for processing within minutes.
-
- I simply do not have to be there any more, except for conferences or
- meetings.
-
- Oh yes, the car is a definite *necessity* for shopping, errands, and
- picking the kids up from Day Care. Ever tried getting a pair of kids
- both under four anywhere by bus or train? Strapping them in at the
- front door and then unstrapping them at the destination represents
- *total* control.
-
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