Re: Cars make more economic sense than transit: fact

[Rod Gayford <rjaygee@smartchat.net.au>]

To all you car loving shitbags. Piss off out of this site, I am sick to
death of all your ill informed garbage. Its typical of the red kneck crap
that emanates from the USA were car travel is equated with freedom and
public transport is thought of as some sort of socialist plot. Like Homer
Simpson says " Only losers travel by public transport". And the majority of
boof head red knecks probably do not get the joke. The people that oppose
public transport seem to be amongst the biggest parasites such as car
salemen, real estate agents and mobil phone sellers.

Cheers

RJG

roger_callsaver@my-deja.com wrote:

> In response to article <3793B079.B701AE9B@studentmail.newcastle.edu.au>,
> from Leif <leif.hanlen@studentmail.newcastle.edu.au> :
>
> Personal transportation is the way of the future. The freedom to go
> where you want to go and when you want to go.
>
> Public transportation in Australia is a joke because it's way too
> expensive. And if you live in regional Australia, you're even further
> discriminated against so you have to rely more and more on your car.
>
> The whole idea of public transport was that it was meant to be not only
> more efficient as far as pollution and infrastructure use (the road),
> but also cheaper as well.
>
> In Sydney you'll almost always be quicker from point A to point B in
> your car than in the bus (unless it's peak hour, and the bus can zip
> past masses of Military road traffic in its transit lane). And you'll
> most probably use less petrol than the bus-fare.
>
> Here in Cairns, my wife paid $2.70 for the bus ticket from Smithfield
> to Palm Cove, 12km away. And the trip took 45 minutes!!!! Because
> SunBus reduced services, even the express bus does all the little loops
> in and around each of the three little beach suburbs, and the trip
> takes forever. You'd have to be a complete idiot to take the bus, if
> you can hop in your car, drive the 12km in less than 20 minutes, and
> use less than $1 in petrol. Buying a car will save my wife $17 per week
> in bus-fares after calculating in the cost of petrol, and will be able
> to spend just over two and a half hours more with our kids, as she
> won't have to sit there for 45 minutes each way going around in circles
> watching the world go by, and people get on and off the bus. The car
> saves time and money.
>
> Public transport is for idiots. Smart people drive cars :
>
> Had an appointment with a client the other week. His cute secretary who
> popped in the door 15 minutes late 'because the bus was late' travels
> all the way in from Palm Cove (where my wife works), to the City of
> Cairns, around 20km or so. One and a half hours. What a joke. 35
> minutes by car, 40 minutes if the traffic lights down Sheridan St have
> been put out of sync, so that the copper down the road zaps more
> speeding drivers with his laser radar with inbuilt camera.
>
> Public transport is efficient and cost-effective for the operators and
> shareholders of the operator, it's big business.
> For the smart individual, public transport is a joke, it's inefficient
> and being far from cost effective, more often than not, makes car
> ownership, together with all its expenses, such as insurance,
> registration and maintenance, and the associated freedom, a far more
> attractive proposition.
>
> The only places public transport has any place are as follows :
> * Long distance travel (international, interstate) - ie: Rail, Air, Bus
> * City transportation of the robots to their places of their 9-5 grind
>   (ie: all these office workers who drive to and from work every day on
>    the main arterials should be encouraged to take public transport and
>    leave their car at home - it: take the bus or train -to achieve this
>    the price of public transport should FALL rather than RISE. Our  so-
>    called leaders fail to see this and use every opportunity to pass on
>    increased transport and fuel costs to those who need it most).
> * To jam them full of 'greenies', 'do-goodes' and 'anti-development
>   activists', and drive them over the nearest cliff.
>
> .....roger
>
> Juz my thoughts.
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