Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> You won't know until you go to the transit planning meetings and ask. > > I don't have to go to the transit planning meetings to know what is and > is not possible based simply on the distance invovled and how public > transportation operates.
Rather bitch than try and fix it, I see. >> Most people are not suicidal and would rather not dodge Californian >> drivers while lane splitting, > > Uh, nice generalization there. I only *legally* lane-splitted when > speeds dropped below 30mph. That wrongly assumes Californian drivers are safe at any speed. There's a reason you have to actually take the test instead of just exchanging your driver's license when moving to Oregon now. >> Given traffic doesn't move faster than what you say public transit >> does anyway, why not throw a lot more high capacity vehicles in the mix >> to pick up people while they're stuck stopped in traffic anyway? > > Given that you're making that stat up. I lived for 3 years in the LA > metro area and know how often I was going less than 14mph, practically > never. Even when I took my /car/ to work and didn't have access to the > diamond lane I didn't take much longer than with the bike. On those > days I attributed it more to the rain than the volume of traffic. I lived there for five years and very rarely saw traffic get to properly move if I went any deeper towards downtown than San Fernando. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
