It seemed like a good idea to me at the time and since I was the highest paid employee for the Department of Transportation that’s what we did. If you don’t like it get one of those flying cars from a 1966 Scientific magazine.
My simple minded answer is based on my observations as a mass transit rider/bicyclist. When gas first hit $4a gallon, I couldn’t always find a place to park my bike at work because of all the new riders and the train/bus bus full. So you see, we can spend billions on mass transit, but without financial incentive, it will be a waste of money.
U.S oil production peaked in 1970. The U.S. has expanded it’s oil production technology driven by the higher price of oil. Fracking has boosted U.S. oil production by almost a half a million barrels a day. As U.S. oil production declines due to aging oil fields and difficult to extract oil resources,OPEC will increase its production capacity. See The Quest …Energy,Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin. World Oil supplies are peaking and may soon be unable to meet world demand for the resource.
If you take COMMUTERS out of their cars, it’ll save on the transportation costs for commercial transit. Public transportation often doesn’t pay for itself, but there’s no reason it should. Its goal is to ease congestion and allow for the “business of America” to be conducted, not to turn a profit (if your public trasit system DID turn a profit, people would insist that fares are too high).
doc white about 12 years ago
malfunction junction,tampa. Six lanes down to two.Good job men.
lontooni about 12 years ago
It seemed like a good idea to me at the time and since I was the highest paid employee for the Department of Transportation that’s what we did. If you don’t like it get one of those flying cars from a 1966 Scientific magazine.
aguirra3 about 12 years ago
Want to fix the problem? add a $5 per gallon tax on gas and watch people carpool…
Simon_Jester about 12 years ago
After all the negative cartoons he’s drawn about the DC Metro System, Toles is hardly in a postiion to complain about this.
aguirra3 about 12 years ago
My simple minded answer is based on my observations as a mass transit rider/bicyclist. When gas first hit $4a gallon, I couldn’t always find a place to park my bike at work because of all the new riders and the train/bus bus full. So you see, we can spend billions on mass transit, but without financial incentive, it will be a waste of money.
agate1 about 12 years ago
U.S oil production peaked in 1970. The U.S. has expanded it’s oil production technology driven by the higher price of oil. Fracking has boosted U.S. oil production by almost a half a million barrels a day. As U.S. oil production declines due to aging oil fields and difficult to extract oil resources,OPEC will increase its production capacity. See The Quest …Energy,Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin. World Oil supplies are peaking and may soon be unable to meet world demand for the resource.
Justice22 about 12 years ago
You should have worked a real job instead of taking people’s money with the numbers.
vwdualnomand about 12 years ago
many places need mass transit. roads in major cities are traffic nightmares (boston, nyc, chicago, atlanta, la, dallas)
fritzoid Premium Member about 12 years ago
If you take COMMUTERS out of their cars, it’ll save on the transportation costs for commercial transit. Public transportation often doesn’t pay for itself, but there’s no reason it should. Its goal is to ease congestion and allow for the “business of America” to be conducted, not to turn a profit (if your public trasit system DID turn a profit, people would insist that fares are too high).