Remodeling Maidiac
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- #21
The problem is how spoiled Americans are.
If some of my coworkers could rive thier car right up next to thier cubicle, and park it, they would. Have you ever seen some idiot drive around a parking lot furiously, for twenty minutes, trying to find a parking spot twenty feet closer to the door than one they passed up twenty times?
Mass transit, if everybody used, would have enough revenue to expand it's service areas, so it would go everywhere. When I lived in China, and Turkey, mass transit worked wonderfully. You didn't have car payments, inusrance payments, DMV fees, traffic tickets, or crowded parking lots. When my wife, I, and friends would go out to bars, nobody had to be a designated driver. When we needed to go out of town, or some kind of holiday, we'd just rent a car for the weekend. It was way cheaper than owning a car.
Gas prices wouldn't be near the problem they are now if we weren't so dependent on it. That's why the long term investment, without short term cost effectiveness, is critical to get us off the Saudi, Venezuelan, and Nigerian teets
Did you actually watch someone drive past a parking stall 20 times in 20 minutes?
Secondly, why didn't you take that spot?