... There are vast differences between the quality and safety of a transit commute vs. a car commute too. On the bus or train people can make productive use of...
How bout those lucky people chugging around on the Long Island for over an hour or two. Here we have people coming in from the lake country out in Lake and...
Well, I figure serious accident-wise, trains are way safer than buses are safer than cars. But if you account for property crime (theft, robbery, burglary), I...
... Buses probably skew the safety statistics in their favor because when there is a bus crash there might be a maximum of 50 or so people aboard to be...
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 03:19:51 -0600, EDWARD ROBERT SIROVY proclaimed... ... Quite frankly, the traffic in LA wasn't nearly as bad as I expected, and I was...
... And many of your neighbors walked 15 minutes or rode a trolleybus 7 minutes to Sears or Mt Sinai Hospital. ... And many of your neighbors walked 10 minutes...
Plus, their commute times are reduced because there are no destinations really, no one concentrated area where people live or where people work, and thus,...
... THis is Ed we're talking about. Any of his posts are likely to be an example of how outspoken he is. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? ...
Tribune: CTA announces new funding, big plans for rail service John Hilkevich Tribune Transportation Reporter April 1, 2005 CHICAGO, Illinois - The Chicago...
... Has it been a year already? You're reusing old posts. :P -- Jordan Bettis -- Chicago Il. <http://neighborhoods.chicago.il.us> Photographs of Life in the...
Is this the same one you used last year? You had me going again. I was starting to think that it was just a show to illustrate what the "could" theoretically...
This story was sent to you by: Juan Hill They will not be able to kill Amtrak. ... Wondering how Amtrak succeeds through failure? ... Congress keeps giving it...
Chicago Tribune: CTA chiefs try to make peace with Metra, Pace http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/mchenry/chi-0504010223apr01,1,56429 38.story CTA chiefs...
I like all the statistics on travel times But as much as things change they also stay the same. In 1943, from senn highschool via peterson bus to the howard...
Amtrak has a farebox recovery ratio of about 2/3. Our RTA only has a farebox recovery ratio of 50%. Thus the RTA is a failure and should be liquidated ? What...
Everybody walks a 4 minute mile? People walk about 3 miles an hour. 49,000 employees didn't live within 1/2 mile of Western Electric. Streetcars on Ogden or...
Lot more CTA bus collisions then CTA "L" collisions. ... From: Tony Coppoletta To: CHICAGOTRANSIT@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 4:37 AM Subject:...
Are their any large, land mass not population, countries that have a great national rail network? Maybe even a network of high speed trains. Most of the...
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 23:19:44 -0600, "EDWARD ROBERT SIROVY" ... Most bus accidents are very minor. And most injuries on buses come from falling accidents caused...
... Tony, your a genius. But the fact remains that funding from the state might still not be forth coming. I am getting more pesstimistic by the day, I am...
Yeah, it was the same one. I forgot to come up with something new, and yesterday realized it, so I just recycled the old one. It would be really nice, a lot...
... I don't believe this is correct. I admit that the Amtrak budget presentation is confusing, so I could be wrong. In looking at the document on their...
... You may be trying to reinvent a wheel rather than respecting learned traditions a bit too much, though. As Andre notes, what you call "old thinking" may...
It's just absurd to discount the idea that the system can be improved because some old-timers settled on this idea of making the system overly static. ...
... A quick glance at their FY03 annual report (the most recent one available on their website) shows, for FY ended September 30, 2003, revenues of $2 billion,...
... Intriguing... ... [Great, tastypecanpie, and chicagomotorman get to keep their jobs....] ... [Wait, something's fishy here...] ... [...the air thickens...
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