On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 18:24 +0900, Jim Grisanzio wrote: > the trains here, but I also felt rather restricted. Sometimes I just > want to go over /there/ and I don't want to have to go through /here/ > with all those people just to arrive at my destination. Still an > American, I suppose. :) Anyway, the trend is good. > yeah, you'd rather go over /there/ while sitting in a car stuck in traffic with thousands of other people also going over /there/ or just slightly away from it :)
i was amazed driving down the 101 carpool lane at peak time with several km of stationery traffic on the other 3-4 lanes, when i realised that they were not moving because they were not in the carpool lane which meant that there were 1000s of cars with just a single occupant, all going to (almost) the same place. if they were on a train, they'd spend less money, less time, and be able to read, work, sleep, eat or whatever. -rishab, whose trip to geneva last week took a bit over 3 hrs from apt doorstep to hotel using only public transport... including the 1:30 hr flight and 1 hr check-in.
