22nd April 2004, 10:06 AM
I was not being sarcastic, DJ.
Believe it or not Weltall, not every inch of Europe is packed with a hundred smelly people. If you're in a small rural town then public transportation will be sparse. I'm not suggesting that we have an elaborate tramway system in the middle of Nowhere, Oklahoma, I'm suggesting that there be good public transportation in cities and relatively large towns, such as Fort Collins. Fort Collins is a prime example of people not willing to take the public transportation route even though you can't find a single damn parking space almost anywhere you go. This is especially bad at the University. You can't get around town on foot or even on bike and the public transportation is near non-existent, so if you need to get to work and/or school you have to have a car (like you said, DJ). So there are dozens of thousands of students going to CSU, each one having their own car. And how many parking spaces on-campus? Half a thousand is my rough estimate. Unless you get to school several hours before it opens, you're going to have to park several blocks away, and the campus is so spread apart that you'll be spending more time walking to classes than you will spend inside the classes (which, while being a great exercise, sucks if you're a busy person). It's a huge mess, and the only solution is to have decent public transportation, which will never happen since everyone in U.S. suburbs are huge xenophobes and could never imagine taking a (GASP!) tram to school. Public transportation in regular-sized towns do work, I have seen so myself. And it makes life a hell of a lot easier.
Believe it or not Weltall, not every inch of Europe is packed with a hundred smelly people. If you're in a small rural town then public transportation will be sparse. I'm not suggesting that we have an elaborate tramway system in the middle of Nowhere, Oklahoma, I'm suggesting that there be good public transportation in cities and relatively large towns, such as Fort Collins. Fort Collins is a prime example of people not willing to take the public transportation route even though you can't find a single damn parking space almost anywhere you go. This is especially bad at the University. You can't get around town on foot or even on bike and the public transportation is near non-existent, so if you need to get to work and/or school you have to have a car (like you said, DJ). So there are dozens of thousands of students going to CSU, each one having their own car. And how many parking spaces on-campus? Half a thousand is my rough estimate. Unless you get to school several hours before it opens, you're going to have to park several blocks away, and the campus is so spread apart that you'll be spending more time walking to classes than you will spend inside the classes (which, while being a great exercise, sucks if you're a busy person). It's a huge mess, and the only solution is to have decent public transportation, which will never happen since everyone in U.S. suburbs are huge xenophobes and could never imagine taking a (GASP!) tram to school. Public transportation in regular-sized towns do work, I have seen so myself. And it makes life a hell of a lot easier.