Hi Jim
On (12 Nov 97) Jim Dunmyer wrote to Alec Cameron...
 > service suited best. It was the wasteful, development of the 
 > automobile and
 > the ambition to live in weird locations that put people out thar, 
 > where trains were not.
 JD> Seems to be the way people want to live. Trains actually began their
 JD> decline as the preferred way for people to travel back in the 20's and
 JD> 30's. The smaller commuter lines were almost completely gone by the 
middle
 JD> 50's.
It's a reactive thing. The automobile became affordable and fun to drive so
there was reaction against rail service.
Now as the price of gas escalates, the *various* costs of road construction
[not just the $ costs] and the poisoning of the air there is a slow reaction
against the auto and a hankering for public transport. Small commuter lines
are alive and well in some places. But not here!
Cheers.....ALEC
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