FreeDuck wrote:Chai Tea wrote:FreeDuck wrote:Nevermind. Mispost.
What didya want to say? This is interesting.
I misunderstood your quoted post above. I thought you posted that before I posted my last one and that I hadn't read it before I posted, and... you know, just a misunderstanding.
Who's on first?
What you said about lifestyle choices, that's so tied up with our choice of transportation, it's how we get to where we choose to live our life.
Like I said before, I think my city has thrown some really dumb ideas around. Ideas that even in 30 years wouldn't be worth it.
I'd consider taking PT is it didn't take twice as long, and in some cases, needed a car to get to where the public transportation could pick you up.
This is just an idea out of the blue....In our DT there is in addition to buses, little trollys call the 'dillos. It's a wonderful idea for people who want to scoot just a few blocks to a mile quickly within downtown.
The problem is, most people don't work downtown, as a whole. As a matter of fact, I NEVER have a reason to go downtown. I do that once a couple of weeks because that's where the main highway is.
Like I said before, once I'm at work, I'd be stuck if I didn't have a car. However, if the road running through eating establishments, drug stores etc had a 'dillo system that could cart people around the few blocks they'd like to get to in the middle of the day, I'd use that to get errands done. Have several scooting up and down a three or four miles stretch every 5-10 minutes. Make it free, keep more cars off the roads, keep people moving in a little limited area, giving them freedom to move about during the day. I can think of several places this would work in.