Re: LA Rail Revival

["Mal Lansell" <mlansell@activision.changethistocom>]

I promise you don't want an LA style rail network.  The number of riders is
tiny compared to the number of people moving around by car each day (150000
cars go through a freeway interchange about a mile from here every day), and
LA is of such a size that trillions of dollars would be required to connect
it all by rail.  As it is, so much money has been wasted on lines that don't
go where people want to go (for example, the green line goes past the
airport without a connection, so you can't use it to get downtown), that the
bus services for people who rely on public transport have suffered imensely.

Mal


M.B. and C.M.McDonald wrote in message <7ka9ds$3o4tk$1@titan.xtra.co.nz>...
>Think I'll throw my oar in here!  The situation with colour is not as
simple
>as you may think.  I haven't got the time to spend looking up references
...
>but this is the situation as I understand it.
>
>There are two main methods of producing by mixing, additive and subractive.
>
>Additive, like colour TV and computer monitors, uses red, green, and blue
as
>others have already noted.
>
>Subtractive, as on colour printers uses yellow, cyan, magenta, ( and
black.)
>They are not pure colours at all - perhaps better described as minus blue,
>minus red, minus green respectively.
>
>The human eye also has a part to play in making colour mixing work, but I
>don't have any detailed knowledge of the performance of the colour
receptors
>in the eye (they're only in the central portion of the eye and don't work
if
>the light level is low).
>
>The colours of the rainbow (it's an infinite number!) are all "pure"
colours
>and can't be made by mixing other colours.
>
>Fortunately for us, the eye is not very selective.  Colours with different
>spectral analysis may appear to be the same to us.
>
>And now back to matters rail.  Auckland (NZ) has often been described as
>having modelled itself on LA in making the car king.  If only it would
still
>look to LA and get some action into plans to bring back rail transport.
>LA's "Green Line" loading of 23,000 passengers per day would overload
>TranzRail's Auckland suburban network.
>
>Cheers
>Michael McDonald
>
>Thomas Johnson wrote in message <7k8rlj$7r5$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>...
>>
>>elson@westworld.com wrote in message <7k8nu3$qtl$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>>>In article <37658F9D.70317423@ridgecrest.ca.us>,
>>>  mmullen@ridgecrest.ca.us wrote:
>>>> Come on, guys and gals.  You are trying to read some symbolism into
>>>> someplace where it doesn't exist.  Red, Blue, and Green are just
primary
>>>> colors and there aren't that many to choose from.
>>>
>>>Sorry to nitpick, but green is not a primary color, it is a composite
>>>color (green is blue + yellow). The primary colors are red, blue and
>>>yellow.
>>>
>>Red, blue and green are the primary colours of light from which you can
>make
>>all other colours. Red, blue and yellow are the primary colours of things
>>like paint.
>>
>>Thomas Johnson
>>
>>
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