Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jack, Like any infrastructure, you build from the core need out. In the NE U.Sthere is a fair train system already in place. You can get from most major towns to most places fairly easily and relatively inexpensively. The eastern seaboard is where most Americans live with other bright spot Dallas/Houston, the California coastline up to Seatle and the concentrations around the Great Lake region. You just have to connect the dots of people. One of the other reason to come up with a transit system is that our cities are becoming impossible to navigate by car due to congestion. Cities like Atlanta are becoming pockets of villages as most people do not care to leave their "hood". So we have an SMSA or about 4.7million and I would guess that about 4.5 million never leave an area extending a radius of 3 miles except for work location, sports event, or flying. The money spent on transportation infrastructure will be made up by having a more mobile workforce, more flexibility in where facilities are located, and a reduced cost of movement both in time and energy costs. So, the next time the unemployment rate starts to creep up you start to build an already planned system. The power plants would of course need to be coming on line already. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 4/27/06, Jack C. Herron <jackherron@cox.net> wrote: > > Let's see, if we ignore the former USSR and some slavic countries, we find > that the rough center of what we normally think of as Europe is > approximately Paris, and that one can reach almost all of it in a distance > that is about the width of Texas. The ability of your friends in Europe > to > travel like this is far more the result of the small size of Europe than > anything else. A comparable rail system would have to be 6 times the size > of the european system. While the continuing thread seems to concentrate > on > metro transportation, your comment on air travel seems to invoke a larger > picture than a commute within Pittsburgh. The problems are simply not > comparable. > Jack C. Herron > 8118 E. 20th St. > Tucson, AZ 85710 > 520 885-6933 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 6:51 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Small cars > > > Now if we in the U.S. could just convince the rest of us to build a system > of nuclear, solar and wind plants to power a comprehensive rail system > like > Europe has then things would be much better fuel wise. I do envy my > friends > in Europe the ability to hop on a train and get somewhere without most of > the security hassles air travel creates. > > Don > don.dory@gmail.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >