On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:36:27 -0500, clare at snyder.on.ca
Which is clearly a liberals attempt to sway people to believe that cars should be outlawed.
Near me is an intersection which used to be one of the top 10 accident sites in Illinois. At the time, oh about 20 years ago or so, that intersection had more than 300,000 cars pbutt per day. Clearly that is a little more than 8000, and since the majority of that traffic was not traveling at midnight, it is even higher than the average would indicate. Oh, it is also the intersection of a side street from a neighborhood onto US 30, which at that point is in the middle of Park Forest Illinois, and so would not be in any way looked at as a highway. It wasn't even a well made road until they improved that area by making it 3 lanes each way. I am pretty sure that the day time average is closer to 20,000 cars an hour.
The next thing to look at is the fact that the ICG rail line that the Chicago Metra train uses to bring people from that intersection down town, is only useful once people HAVE DRIVEN AS MUCH AS 30 OR MORE MILES TO GET TO THE TRAIN. THEN THEY HAVE TO WALK, OR USE A CAB, OR A BUS, OR ANOTHER f***ING TRAIN, once they get down town.
Some people are so focused on showing the "superiority" of mbutt transit that they have to ignore all the waste that is required just to get people TO THE Mbutt TRANSIT. The only reason people use Metra is because the COST of parking down town exceeds the value they would get by driving. For those who drive down town, however, the cost of driving to the Metra station, parking there, and then taking mbutt transit once they get down town, far exceeds the cost of driving down town.
************************* Dave
