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- From: fyl@ssc.com (Phil Hughes)
- Subject: Re: Transit system in Seattle (Re: Following distance Was (Re: Why CAN'T people drive 55?!))
- Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:51:22 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.205122.14187@ssc.com>
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- Josh Hayes (josh@cqs.washington.edu) wrote:
- : I guess I'll stick a toe into these waters... I LIKE the transit
- : system in Seattle. Even before I got my absurdly cheap u-pass, I
- : bought monthly passes, and rode the bus EVERYWHERE. I have a car,
- : but I very seldom use it.
- :
- : Of course, I live in the city, on Capitol Hill. But I take the
- : bus downtown, to Northgate, to Ballard, to the airport....sure,
- : it takes time. But so does driving, and then you have to find
- : parking, and deal with traffic
-
- In a book by Ernest Callenbach about making living choices (I forget the
- name of the book) he points out that a realistic way to think about a car
- is that you must add the time you work to support your car when you figure
- how "fast" in gets you around. His calculation showed that once the costs
- of an average car (purchase, maintenance, insurance, parking, etc) was
- paid for in the amount of time you needed to work to get the necessary
- money that cars only transported you at about 6 miles per hour.
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