Subj : Mass Trans
To   : Steve Brooks
From : Finnigann
Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 22:11:00

-=> Steve Brooks wrote to alt.tv.farscape <=-

 SB> From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

 SB> I'm prejudiced here. I don't like SUVs because I can't see round them,
 SB> I think most of them are ugly and I see them as a dangerous fashion
 SB> accessory (especially if they have bull bars.) But in this case we
 SB> shouldn't be worrying about aesthetic considerations. Fuel efficiencies
 SB> are what matter.


 > I see them with just one person driving them in the centre of a city.
 > Totally stupid and unessecary. The idea of a larger engine being in a
 > larger tax bracket makes perfect sense. Now all we need to do is to
 > make them spend the money on the buses/trains rather than more bloody
 > roads.

 SB> Buses will never work IMO while they are in the private sector.
 SB> Shareholder value makes no allowance for cross-subsidisation or social
 SB> value.

Americans are in love with their cars. Mas Trans has no such appeal... yet.

.... Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers.
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