[lbo-talk] NY blocks mayor's congestion plan

[sawicky at verizon.net]

A not-goofy comparison would be to compare passenger miles of people going 
to and from the same place(s).


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Doug Henwood
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> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] NY blocks mayor's congestion plan
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> 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.
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