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To: Taro who wrote (226323)	3/25/2005 8:08:24 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576163

take it you have never taken a train or bus in LA. I understand.......that's a very unelitist thing to do. What mode of transport do you taken in Munich? Do you dare to go on the Metro? Probably now...huh? Downtown transportation is OK just like in NYC. But try to get out in the burbs and rely in the infamous US public transportation and you know what I mean. Hey, you libs used to be the very ones to point out these US shortcoming and point to the better solution in other countries. If gas were to go up in prices dramatically, the current layout of American cities would change very quickly. This obviously is a matter of choice only. You can tax gas heavily and invest the money in public transportation or you can do it the US way, leave gas prices affordable to the masses and neglect the public transportation structures. I am not the one to decide what is the better but I do have to admit that I love high speed car driving on the German autobahn... We are paying a steep price for our model........invasion of Iraq, expensive military bases in the ME, drilling in the ANWR, serious air pollution in many American cities etc. BTW, I am an expert chikatetsu traveller in Tokyo and sure, I have been on the German Ubahn when visiting down town Munich and Hannover. Quite unbeatable for versatility IMO the Tube in London. I thought the Munich Metro was good........for big cities, I think Paris' and London's systems are well run. My favourite subway obviously being "Tunnelbanan" in Stockholm, the Venice of Northern Europe. As a kid I walked through some of the tunnels before the opened up the first lines in 1952. I haven't been to Stockholm, just Malmo. ted