<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Fred Schneider <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fwschneider@comcast.net" target="_blank">fwschneider@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Unduplicated route miles in Toronto after the Bloor subway opened might have been around 40ish. At that time Pittsburgh was still running to McKeesport, Drake, Library, West View. Millvale and the West End One of my favorite examples is a comparison of two almost identical cities … Harrisburg, Pa. and Victoria, BC. Both have populations on the same order of magnitude but the Canadian city has ten times more bus riders than the Pennsylvania city … 150,000 on a weekday in Victoria versus 15,000 in Harrisburg. You stand on the main streets in downtown Victoria in the rush hour and you see buses swallowing up crowds of people. I did that in 2007. Harrisburg? Why would I humble myself to ride a bus? I own a car.<br>
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<br></div></div></blockquote><div> <br></div><div>Why would I do either? my bike certainly took me from Camp Hill to the Eisenhower Interchange and back easily enough ;)<br></div></div></div></div>