Doug, there is a fear of giving up the car with a loathing for the traffic jams. The preferred solution is better roads which just create more traffic. Because public transport is underfunded, most people associate public transport with inefficiency, poverty and bad government. But the disgust with traffic grows daily and people do not want freeways too near their cul de sacs. > Doug Henwood wrote: > >Isn't there like zero popular support for mass transit in California? How > >can you push a policy, however humane and rational, that no one wants? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901
