bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
I've been to America before, so I'm an expert, yes I am. 
If you're thinking that putting in bus routes for America's rural population is going to make a difference, you know less about America than the Guru does. Anyone besides myself ever been to some of their cities? And I don't mean just the big scary ones that we all sort of knew were big and scary, but ... Albuquerque???? Do you know where Albuquerque is? (And who besides me knows that's pronounced?) I didn't, until I went there for a convention. And when I asked my hosts for a bus map, they all gave me this big  and  . I eventually did get a map of the city finally, and they showed me where the "safe areas" are (30% of the city), the "no-go areas", and there wasn't anybody who didn't warn me AGAINST using the bus system for however short a journey. I ended up having to have people drive me around the whole time.
Great. Jack up petrol prices, tax the driving public mad. But if you can't make the existing bus systems -- even those in the cities -- a safe option, then admit that this is nothing more than mean-spirited social engineering. I don't care how much you tax people, you cannot force them to place themselves in harm's way. They'll rebel and vote you out of office. |
The german speaks the truth. |
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