“So what if I refuse to address your example?
I find it silly and intellectually dishonest...”
CT - Willie refuses to address this issue because as a Houston-area resident, he is fully aware of the time it takes to do ANYTHING concerning driving and refuses to answer because his argument would be WRONG!
I live near Houston and I am 46 miles from my office. It takes about an hour to get to my office. I have two co-workers who live in Jersey Village, which is only about 20 miles from our office, yet it takes them about 50 minutes to get to the office. They are in thick traffic the whole time, and I am on a pretty open highway for the majority of my drive.
He refuses to admit that time will NOT be saved when riding a train/bus system, it is simply a LIE!
I lived in the DFW area for several years and I only had one vehicle. So, my wife would drop me off at the train station in the morning, and I rode the train to the bus to my office. Driving there would take me about an hour and 20 minutes, but riding the train took two hours. And, I was often late due to train delays or bus failures or traffic!
These systems are NOT an improvement!
The worst part is, having seen the debacle of the downtown toy train, with its negative effects on hundreds of businesses, its constant wrecks, the immense subsidies to its ridership, ad nauseum, he still pimps for this crap !