home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!seanews!fylz!ssc!ole!rwing!fnx!nazgul!bright
- From: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
- Newsgroups: seattle.general
- Subject: Re: Transit system in Seattle (Re: Following distance Was (Re: Why CAN'T people drive 55?!))
- Message-ID: <1591@nazgul.UUCP>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 17:08:26 GMT
- References: <MS-C.727498752.377401575.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> <1jki4jINN1n8@shelley.u.washington.edu> <crystal.727581769@glia> <josh.727643608@pogo> <1jn306INN3sc@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Reply-To: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
- Organization: Zortech, Seattle
- Lines: 15
-
- josh@cqs.washington.edu (Josh Hayes) writes:
- / 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.
-
- Absurdly cheap because it is tax-subsidized (heavilly). I recall reading
- somewhere that if riders paid what it actually cost, it would be around
- $6 for a ticket.
-
- / I am, however, generally in favor
- / of anything that will get people to drive less,
-
- Raise gasoline taxes. It worked before (people used to drive a lot more
- before the Arab oil embargo, and people drive much smaller cars now).
-