Comments on: what’s really wrong with public transit? http://wrythings.net/2007/04/24/whats-really-wrong-with-public-transit/ words worth reading Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:07:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Michael http://wrythings.net/2007/04/24/whats-really-wrong-with-public-transit/#comment-3677 Michael Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:56:56 +0000 http://wrythings.net/2007/04/24/whats-really-wrong-with-public-transit/#comment-3677 From Ted Ernst's blog: <a href="http://tedernst.com/wp/2007/06/13/trains-scale-up-better-than-planes/" rel="nofollow">Trains scale better than planes!</a> Better than <a href="http://www.downtownairport.com/" rel="nofollow">an airport downtown</a>.... From Ted Ernst’s blog: Trains scale better than planes!

Better than an airport downtown….

]]> By: michael http://wrythings.net/2007/04/24/whats-really-wrong-with-public-transit/#comment-3667 michael Mon, 07 May 2007 13:14:31 +0000 http://wrythings.net/2007/04/24/whats-really-wrong-with-public-transit/#comment-3667 <em>My friend Ben says:</em> <blockquote>Your transit piece made me think of <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_paumgarten/" rel="nofollow">this recent piece in the New Yorker</a> about extreme commuting. The interesting thing about travel choice is that people often choose modes that lower their overall quality of life (increased social isloation, less time with family) in favor of a couple of seemingly paramount benefits - low cost house with big yard. In my thinking people should be called upon to be selfish here. Its to their own benefit to take transit, its to thier own benefit to increase thier sales tax contributions to the rta by .025%. But all to often its hard as hell to do what we know very well is good for us and makes us happy. Instead we pick up the remote, turn on cruise control, tune out. <a href="http://inthefray.org" rel="nofollow">Here's the one I used to blog for</a>. Its also been a while.</blockquote> My friend Ben says:

Your transit piece made me think of this recent piece in the New Yorker about extreme commuting.

The interesting thing about travel choice is that people often choose modes that lower their overall quality of life (increased social isloation, less time with family) in favor of a couple of seemingly paramount benefits - low cost house with big yard. In my thinking people should be called upon to be selfish here. Its to their own benefit to take transit, its to thier own benefit to increase thier sales tax contributions to the rta by .025%. But all to often its hard as hell to do what we know very well is good for us and makes us happy. Instead we pick up the remote, turn on cruise control, tune out.

Here’s the one I used to blog for. Its also been a while.

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