On Apr 9, 2008, at 11:17 AM, James Heartfield wrote:
> A sense of proportion helps in transport discussions. In 2005 US
> passenger
> miles by transit were 49,680 million; by highway 4,884,557 million,
> about
> one hundred times as many. Even if transit were to double in size
> that would
> only reduce highway passenger miles by one per cent.
1% here, 1% there, and pretty soon you're talking real reductions.