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Your post looks like a pyramid. I like that.
I hear those are good places to store grain
Your post looks like a pyramid. I like that.
I hear those are good places to store grain
It would be great if we could get all our passenger trains back. It would be so much nicer traveling across country on a train rather than driving through traffic in cities and road construction. No need to worry about breaking down or getting a flat tire in the middle of nowhere. Traveling by train was so convenient and fun while in Europe. So much better than being cramped in a car or airplane for long trips. Hard to believe we had the right idea over 100 years ago, but blew it in favor of more cars.
The main issue is that there's no way to make train travel cheaper than air travel. And of course it takes much longer.
I don't care. I'd rather pay more for the luxury of riding a train, and I'll take a bit longer to get where I'm going to avoid all the other unnecessary hassles of flying or driving. Train travel in Europe works just fine. Sure, want other options there they are. I'd rather take the train.
You can't get out of a train whenever you want. If I want to stop and see "South of The Border" or "Wall Drug" or "The Corn Palace", I and only I gets to decide if I'm driving.
Sorry, I don't know what you are talking about.
Your own car is the only mode of transportation YOU get to control. You get to decide where you want to stop. This is what happens if you try to make your own train stop:
The auto industry has been doing a lot to make cars safer within the past decade: more airbags, rearview cameras, proximity warning systems, etc.
Public transportation and walking initiatives
are those serious questions?
So serious that they will be considered impertinent or politically incorrect by some, perhaps treasonous by others.
The more than three percent decline in traffic fatalities continues a long-term downward trend leading to the fatality rate matching a historic low
In a tizzy and consuming the public treasury. :mrgreen:
Smart phones make people do dumb things while driving. Humans cannot control themselves about looking at these mobile devices. Closely related to television, but I digress.
Most folks drive at a speed and under conditions that they are comfortable with, but accidents DO happen. :roll:
And some people are comfortable with driving like they're in the Indy 500 while actually on the public freeways.
A lot of us aren't comfortable with sharing the road with them, however.