[TriLUG] OT: your RTP commute? my office is relocating to RTP from Cary

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 08 March 2007 09:36, Greg Brown wrote:
> It really would be nice to have a light rail system.  I travel between
> Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill all the time and would do so even more
> frequently if I had access to a regional rail system.  But it seems that I
> will not see such an environmentally friendly way to travel, at least not
> in the foreseeable future.  Too bad, I think we all lose out by not having
> a regional rail.

I lived in Chicago the first 30 years of my life, and I can't tell you how 
wonderful it is to have rail based public transportation. 

Here in Orlando we have busses. Almost anywhere, even a fat old man like me 
can get there faster on a bicycle. 

Back in Chicago, you could go from the northern suburbs to the southern ones 
in less than 2 hours, for a very reasonable amount of money. I figured not 
having a car saved me about $10,000.00 per year.

I've taken BART in San Francisco and the New York Subways, both every bit as 
good as Chicago's Ell Train.

Anyone who has lived where they have functional intra-city rail transportation 
sorely misses it, and votes every time to spend the money for it in his new 
home.

Steve Litt
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