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Percival P. Cassidy

On 04/13/08 12:42 pm wrote:

Most of the time on the outbound trip you are substituting a trip
from your cornfield to another for a trip from your cornfield to
downtown.

I'm sure he will say you take commuter rail downtown, then get on the
train. Hope you didn't have too much luggage.
That brings up the other problem with trains, not only do you need to
buy thousands of miles of right of way, you also need parking near the
station with some kind of shuttle to the train. Suddenly this "quick
trip" starts becoming more complicated and pretty soon you are back
with all the problems you had at the airport.
If it is hard to find parking out in the cow field, imagine how tough
it will be in the city.

Perhaps they could do what the Makro stores (German or Dutch Costco-like
stores) did in Taiwan: build multi-story parking above the store
proper -- reduced the air-conditioning costs too. IOW, build parking
structures above the train stations.

Perce