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On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:10:16 -0800, "William Graham"
wrote: Depends on where you live, and what you do, or like to do. It would be very difficult for me to do without a car here in Salem, Oregon. We don't even have a decent bus line that goes by my house, and most of the busses in town stop running at 10:00 PM every day. I have to go to the next town North of me once a week for band practice, and the next town South of me for a music lesson every week.....Both places virtually inaccessible without my own car. If I had to do without a car, I would have to move to the heart of a very large city just to be able to continue my two principal hobbies. (photography and trumpet playing) And even then, getting to and from gigs would be very problematical. - And then, there are our four cats....... Do they drive too? |
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On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:31:33 -0800, "William Graham"
wrote: The infrastructure of the US is auto-centric. Yeah. It's going to come as an even bigger shock to you guys. But you'll cope, as we all will have to. Yes.....I don't see any real problems, myself......Getting rid of the gas-guzzlers might be a traumatic experience for some, but I'm sure there will be a number of other alternatives on the horizon. I see us as being individually transportation orientated, but not necessarily gasoline dependent as others seem to see us. When the gas runs out, we will just take to electric vehicles or whatever we have to do. But crowding together into busses or trains just isn't in the cards, and I just don't see that it should have to be. We don't think that way, and our life style isn't designed around that sort of thing. IOW, whatever they come up with, you can be sure of one thing.....One person will be able to leave his house in it, and drive it to wherever he wants to go without having to be dependent on anyone else in order to go there. Whether it burns alcohol, or peanut shells, or runs through storage batteries, or picks up energy from the road or whatever, it will be a one man, one destination at a time vehicle.....Of that, you can be sure....... You really don't get it, do you? :-) |
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On 26 Dec 2006 13:38:09 -0800, "
wrote: Oh, and BTW, my 2wd standard cab shortbed Chevy pickup is small enough, nimble enough, and handles well enough to avoid idiots on the road. The fact that it is large enough and stout enough to provide protection should one of said idiots manage to somehow launch him or herself UNAVOIDABLY into my path of travel is merely a bonus. One day YOU'LL make a mistake. Watch you wriggle :-) |
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On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:46:14 -0800, "William Graham"
wrote: As I say, we here in the US are individual-transportation oriented, and we will find a way to continue in that mode, even if we end up each driving our own electric scooters.... You really, really don't get it, do you? (Note - no smiley) |
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On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:46:13 -0500, Pudentame
wrote: I currently have to be at work at 3:00am. It's just over 5 miles away, slightly more than an hour walking. There's no bus service at that time of night, and damn little at any other time. And the streets I'd have to walk do not have sidewalks for over half that distance. Got a bicycle? |
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Philip Homburg wrote:
In article , Pudentame wrote: I currently have to be at work at 3:00am. It's just over 5 miles away, slightly more than an hour walking. The nearest grocery store is halfway to where I work. Ah, so all you need is a bicycle. :-) Yeah, so the limited number of busses there are in this town could run over me. |
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Laurence Payne wrote:
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:46:13 -0500, Pudentame wrote: I currently have to be at work at 3:00am. It's just over 5 miles away, slightly more than an hour walking. There's no bus service at that time of night, and damn little at any other time. And the streets I'd have to walk do not have sidewalks for over half that distance. Got a bicycle? Yes, but no place to secure it at work. Also no desire to ride up and down that blind hill & curve at 2:30am, and especially not at 12:00 noon coming home. It's a *VERY* busy street then, and there's a lot of scofflaws who don't give a hoot about speed limits. I've had to walk that way a couple of times when for some reason or another I couldn't use my car. |
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Laurence Payne wrote: On 26 Dec 2006 13:38:09 -0800, " wrote: Oh, and BTW, my 2wd standard cab shortbed Chevy pickup is small enough, nimble enough, and handles well enough to avoid idiots on the road. The fact that it is large enough and stout enough to provide protection should one of said idiots manage to somehow launch him or herself UNAVOIDABLY into my path of travel is merely a bonus. One day YOU'LL make a mistake. Watch you wriggle :-) Oh, I'm perfectly capable of making a mistake. It's just that someone who spent 14 years as a motorcycle safety instructor and five years as a motorcycle racer, and three years as a motorcycle racing instructor, is on average, somewhat less likely than the average car driver to make a mistake. I'm sure, someday, I will. In the meantime, I have 32 years of driving with nothing but one minor fender bender on ice, and 28 years of riding with no collisions, a record I'm doing my best to maintain in SPITE of what sometimes appear to be the best efforts of many of my fellow road users. |
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In article , David J. Littleboy
writes "Kennedy McEwen" wrote: I personally don't want to see someone in my rear view mirror approaching at 175MPH while I am stuck at traffic lights on my way home from work. The easy way to avoid that is to not own a car. (That's one of the reasons I ended up in Tokyo.) Seriously, I don't understand why more people don't decide not to own cars. The (quite rational*) decision not to own a car ought to be a possibility, right? It is indeed a possibility David and I, for many years, lived without owning or driving a car. However, I consciously took the leap some 15 years ago because the alternatives I was relying on were becoming too expensive and/or unreliable and/or unsuitable for regular use. Successive government policies have encouraged that trend. If, however, I lived and worked in central London for example then I would gladly return to my no car owning life. It is a lifestyle choice, but one heavily influenced by economics and the civil planning of governments. -- Kennedy Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed; A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's ****ed. Python Philosophers (replace 'nospam' with 'kennedym' when replying) |
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In article ,
Laurence Payne lpayne1NOSPAM@dslDOTpipexDOTcom wrote: On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:57:15 GMT, Rebecca Ore wrote: The infrastructure of the US is auto-centric. Yeah. It's going to come as an even bigger shock to you guys. But you'll cope, as we all will have to. I'm moving to England if I can. Otherwise, I'm staying in Philadelphia, a wonderful place separated from Pittsburgh by Northern Alabama. |
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