Originally Posted by
Coal Buster
The car guys could counter that five people in one car takes up less space than five people on separate bicycles....and a full bus takes up even less space than both.
Oh quite true...
But look at most automobiles out there and it is quite obvious that there are not 5 people in them.
Get motorists to carry 5 people and watch and see how little road space is needed. This is EXACTLY what LA did when they last hosted the Olympics, and they had few traffic problems... then people went right back to their old habits.
Public transit barely pays for itself due to lack of ridership. Reward people that carpool or use public transit, and maybe bad habits can be changed, and we can quit building more roads, and have cleaner air... oh what a concept.