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Why has Public Transportation Failed and How it Can Regain Momentum
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<p>[quote user="Bucyrus"]</p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt;mso-fareast-font-family:'Times New Roman';mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:small;">I think the problem of traffic and commuting will be solved by just ending commuting, rather than commuting by train.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes;"> </span>We are quickly becoming a service / information economy.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes;"> </span>People will just stay home and do their work on the Internet.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes;"> </span>This nonsense of driving off to work every day will seem like a relic of the horse and buggy era.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>I hope this will not happen!</p> <p>Who raises the cattle, who builds the truck that ships it to the meat packing plant on roads or rails built by whom? Who delivers it to your supermarket and builds the car you use to go there? A healthy economy needs all three sectors - agriculture, industry and the service sector to serve those two. Unfortunately, we tend to forget this. We will always need transport, be it private or public.</p>
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