Free travel is the ideal. Anything less is subject to getting there on time via a vehicle.
The infrastructure of roads has come at a tremendous... cost to the taxpayer. Nothing is free.
What I HATE are gum chewers, who seem to find me whenever I have taken any form of public transportation.
I just don't want to sit there and travel across the whole damned country with some cow muncher chewing gum in my face.
Thanks to having been tormented with that disgusting habit by several family members, I can't stand the sight, the sound, or the stench of gum chewing. I just hate, hate, hate it.... the habit and the chewers
Theodore Dalrymple has an article somewhere on his website about being fed up to the back teeth with chewing gum.
HE says that to him, it is both bovine and also aggressive. I find that I must agree with him.
I’ve seen references to “Willie Green,” mostly on train related articles.
I did a web search and found a basketball player who plays for the Clippers (Willie J Green). Am I missing something? Is he some kind of model railroad enthusiest?
I know some otherwise well educated and apparently intelligent people who, when seem incapable of comprehending that low population density makes serious passenger rail ridiculously expensive.
Why are there so many dummies? I’m even talking about math majors and self-styled “scientists.” If you diagram the problem on the back of a napkin, it’s like they can’t see the napkin. Perhaps they still have the model train fixation of most (male) kids’ youth. They WANT TO BELIEVE, and it overpowers all rationality.
In GErmany it makes a lot of sense and the same in Japan
Between NY and LA it doesn't make any sense, but between Philly and NY it should make sense (but doesn't -- getting to the train station in Philly is a pain and the trains are expensive and crowded)
So trains in specific parts of the US would make sense as high-speed entities -- and they would compete very well with cars and aircraft