[PRCo] Huffington Post

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...> On Sun, 11/24/13, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:

...> Regarding this item ... posted four days back:
 
...> <http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/19/public-transit-gif-toronto-streetcar-ttc_n_4304258.html>
 
...> A variety of reactions:
 
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...> 3.   ... the suburbs are created simply as a means for the rich to escape helping those of lesser means,
...> ...allow the suburbanites to tramp on the people living in the cities.
...> ...It all depends on which group has the voting advantage.
...> ...but too many of those wonderful people outside the cities feel no compulsion to support.
...> ...Often they moved out to escape people who look different too.


Please give references, sources, articles, for the above.  Also; where do you live?  Lancaster?
Again, somewhere it was recently written:  ...  One of the facts of life dad never mentions is this:  When a person offers
observations about a topic, most especially when unsolicited, that person is describing himself more than the topic isn't he.

All those 'observations' quoted above under (> 3.) are excellent fulfillment about those who offer unsolicited comments.
  Utterly amazing isn't it.  This is writing an autobiography while claiming to write about others.



...> There are also the pension liabilities for many of the
...> city staff which the people who moved out escaped from paying


"When one sees a need, one should fill it."  Please open your checkbook and make your contribution--a big meaningful contribution!



...> The last time I was able to spend a whole day without a car
...> (and it was wonderful) was a day in New York … by train from here last year.   


Then move.  We still have freedom; we are not yet communist (moving that direction some claim, but not there yet.)
Move to Philly and sell your car.  All these laments yet no action.  Now come the excuses ...



...> 4.   But if we try to extrapolate that fantastic comparison of how many people
...> the streetcar holds versus the automobile to the United States,
...> it just doesn't does not work.  Falls flat here because so many
...> of our transit vehicles are empty.[-removed endless verbage]


The whole point of the Huffington ad is to fill transit vehicles and to use more transit vehicles and less autos.
  An endless diatribe of many paragraphs fails to make any coherent point.  Fill transit vehicles, especially
if they are empty.  Get more if they are full.  Why 10-paragraphs?  One gets lost in the forest, even the writer.


Empty transit vehicles.  Why are they operating empty?  Leave them in the barn.  But then the village can not
collect federal [tax] dollars.  Who wrote that ridership is fudged?  Who says suburbanites do not pay?
  They are taxed for much they never see let alone use.  [Here comes another 100,000-word essay.]


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> On Nov 20, 2013, at 7:14 AM, DF Cramer wrote:
 
 > http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/19/public-transit-gif-toronto-streetcar-ttc_n_4304258.html
 > Great visualization of the benefits of transit from our
 friends north of the border.
 > 
 > Dennis F. Cramer 
 > http://home.windstream.net/dfc1/