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      <title>Comments On: Science Fiction and Public Transit
    
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      <![CDATA[I'm kind of tired of this sexiness-as-transit. It shouldn't really matter if your vehicle rolls on steel wheels or rubber ones - but how quickly it gets you where you are going and how frequently it comes.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Growing up riding the NYC subway, I learned one important thing.<br />
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Never make eye contact!!<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1doR9zUtQ8" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1doR9zUt&hellip;</a><br>
        
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          Posted by <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Profile?oid=1504513">Supreme Ruler Of The Universe</a>]]>
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    <author><![CDATA[sgt_doom]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Now this (below) is a real transit system:<br />
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<a href="http://davesgeekyideas.com/2012/06/12/toronto-ttc-subwayrt-map-super-mario-3-style/" rel="nofollow">http://davesgeekyideas.com/2012/06/12/to&hellip;</a><br />
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<a href="http://originaldave77.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/toronto-ttc-subway-rt-map-mario-3-wallpaper-large-updated-20121.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://originaldave77.files.wordpress.co&hellip;</a><br>
        
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    <author><![CDATA[cars + transit = mobility]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[“All the cities we admire most in the world--the places young people want to live--boast great public transit systems or are in the process of building them. Taras Grescoe explains why: there's nothing more civilized than a great subway, or a bus rapid transit system, or a squad of ferries, or any of the other ways we've learned to move ourselves around urban space. As this splendid account makes clear, a car isn't liberation: not needing a car is liberation!”--<br>
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actually, the great cities of the world allhave (a) great tranist and (b) cars.  And the most liberating thing is to be able to use great transit, and also to be able to afford a car to use, too, when you want it.  Many better off people do.  The folks without cars usually end up cadging rides from their pal in amsterdam who's got a car so they can all drive to val d'iser to go skiing.    As a car owner I've given about 7 non-car-possessing people rides in the last week.<br>
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what's liberating is mobility, the faster the better, and the form of the box that's moving you isn't the most important thing; the movement is.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[hint: our psychology]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[um, just be a tourist and go to mexico city, nyc, rome, paris, london, you'll take the subway anyway.  <br>
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most of us do.<br>
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most people around the world know transit and how it works.  it's only people in seattle who're "fascinated" by it; to others it's like having a sewer system, or roads, or electricity.  <br>
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what's far more interesting than why 300 other cities have it is why we don't.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Daily in LA]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I believe Paul's referring to Mosley's many other books, which are generally great and typically full of relaxed and fun prose. That's one of the reasons (he feels) this hermaphrobook is a disappointment.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Will in Seattle]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Being relaxed and fun is a disappointment?<br />
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Wow.<br />
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You must be fun at parties ...
        
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