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To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (37972)	9/8/2003 2:04:55 AM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 74559

What many people will do with better public transport is leave their car parked 3/4 days a week, and use for going out if they are single, or trips to the big box store, ore days with multiple errands. They can often postponne buying another car until a number of years after the first car is paid off. This would mean a reduction in oil consumed, and the average person getting out of expensive auto financing debt, and still having the flexiblity of a car available... There are some other issues that drive people into cars. I'm a little bigger than average male, and when I have short hair and wear sunglass (Ray-bans or Randolph Engineering) I look a little like a cop. So I have rarely been hassled on public transport. A smaller , female or elderly person might have a VERY different experience, and thus a strong incentive to drive unless they lived in a place with aggresive and hard ass law enforcement, like New York in the last 2 years of Rudy Guiliani. Hours are another matter. If my job requires me to stay late to do a conference with Japan or Taiwan, public transit is not an option....