(Brent P)
Taxing Drivers By The Mile 1754I don't know how far the average Chicagoan walks to get to the train station, but millions of them every year wait under the heat...
No, YOU suck one. In one breath you claim that $40 parking lots don't exist, and then in the very next sentence you admit that they might exist after all, but you're not sure.
Sorry if I embarrbutted you by calling your lame argument on the carpet. ;)
Nobody said that ALL parking downtown is $40-day. However, you don't have to look very hard to find it. Grant Park is cheap because it's out of the way; it's also subsidized to encourage people to come downtown and shop or to visit the city as tourists. Workers in downtown office buildings pay more to park in those smaller, private lots that are scattered throughout the downtown area because those are closer to where they work. Nobody wants to walk 10 blocks from Grant Park to the office in 30 below windchill...
I'm talking about people who WORK downtown.
It was a rhetorical question. I merely wanted you to realize that not all transit advocates are car-hating loons. I love my car, I just hate sitting in traffic. I don't want to take anybody's car away; my position has always been that I don't give a poo if everyone else wants to sit in their cars on a choked freeway for 4 hours every day, as long as there are alternatives for those who desire not to.
What experience is that? How many transit advocates to you know personally? Do you attend any of those public meetings where transit planning is discussed? I'm seriously interested to know exactly what it is you're basing your opinion on. So why, precisely, do you think the majority of transit advocates are like Critical Mbuttholes and not like me?
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