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And guess what: this is a perfect example of the DISEASE known as "AUTOMOBILIATION" !! The word is contracted from "automobile" and "alienation". Excessive use of the private car leads to being alienated from the VAST MAJORITY of other members of society, and this phenomenon has spread into our residential arrangements, often manifesting itself in the need to use some type of rubber tired/steering wheeled vehicle, known collectively as the AUTOMOBILE (since they ALL share the EXACT SAME technology, REGARDLESS of whatever we may choose to name that particular vehicle, be it may a car, BUS, or even a TRUCK). Here we are in SoCal, forced to use 300+ horsepower to transport (more or less) 150 pounds of humanity, to travel the equivalent of three blocks to the market to pick up a can of condensed milk!!!!
And just think: when the Red cars and the Yellow Cars were in operation, this WASN'T the case, since the rail lines helped densify the region, thus improving land use efficiency. California, as a STATE, actually assisted Hitler during WW2 in the technical aspects of the "final solution", especially in the use of Zyklon B as an exterminant. In turn, Nazi Germany gave California technical details concerning the autobahn and, as a (HORRIBLE) result, Southern California has become nothing more than one huge DEATH CAMP WITH TRAFFIC LIGHTS!!!! What's being killed are NOT the people per se; it's the HUMANITY within them that's being killed!! This is EXACTLY what Hitler wanted for his "superior Aryan population"!!!!
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SymbianL Did you just post that the London metro is "more modern"?? How so, when their tunnels are so damned SMALL that whenever you board a train (freight car with no forward view), you must take a giant step up as well as duck down to keep your head from banging into the top of the vehicle!! In a sense, New York`s has a MUCH MORE MODERN power delivery system, using only ONE THIRD RAIL, AND NOT A THIRD AND "FOURTH" RAIL, as London does (UNSAFE AS ALL HELL!)!!!!
I WILL admit, though, London`s system is MUCH CLEANER, due to the fact that there's service only 18 hours per day, instead of 24 like New York!!
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@IONATVS ....And THAT'S the main reason our transportation systems in these United States simply DON'T FUNCTION THE WAY THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO; everything's all AUTOMOBILIATED!! True, REAL cities serve their populations AT THE HUMAN LEVEL; and this can ONLY be done if the city had a good, pervasive RAIL-BASED public transportation system. It MUST be understood that a bus is nothing more than just another AUTOMOBILE occupying the roadways, and the exclusive use of buses literally FORCES people to purchase private cars, if no rail transit exists in the area. It's been either FORGOTTEN, or simply not understood, that cities are built to serve its residents AT THE BASIC, HUMAN LEVEL OF THE PEDESTRIAN; the need for a personal motor vehicle TOTALLY DESTROYS the true "cityhood" of ANY metropolis, as the people cannot be served at their basic level of functioning, as they are in a rail-based, TRUE, REAL CITY!!!!
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