[SF Republican]

Get drivers out of their cars My wife saw Al Gores movie and is now a believer. I ride mass transit and since her job is on the same line I suggested maybe she could take mass transit also rather than drive the car everyday. She did not like that idea. When I pressed her on doing her part, she said it was, “inconvenient”.

[Ben Mugged]

I have been part of transit studies since 1985 including light rail, bus, commuter lanes, and Maglev. In all of these studies, no solution eventually gets the drivers of personal cars from their start point to their end point any faster. Every year every driver spends 10% more time getting from point A to point B regardless of infrastructure changes. Within 20 years a typical 6 speed 450 hp personal car will never get out of second gear. Just too many cars on the roads. It's science, not hysteria. Try driving from LA to Las Vegas on a Friday night. 450 miles and you will never exceed 50 MPH. Add two more lanes in each direction over the next 10 years and guess what? 450 miles and you will never exceed 45 MPH. Over the 10 year period required to complete the project so many additional cars are added it negates the advantages of the additional lanes.

[paulat]

My wife saw Al Gores movie and is now a believer.

Why would you marry someone like that?

[Muzzle_em]

Lol!
I'm sure it would be "inconvenient" for Al as well, although he thinks the rest of us "common folk" should be willing to do our part while he JETS around the country lecturing us.