Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:33:28 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
        WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Odd event on Metro
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 12/20/2005 11:24 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>"Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> wrote:
> > Maybe all those who rely on much touted public transport, who
> > couldn't get their trains to get to work this morning, can catch
> > a ride with neighbors on their trains?
>
>It would indeed be nice if there were multiple competing transit
>systems.

New York used to have that.  The current subway system is a result of
merging them all together.  Or so my friends who grew up there told me once.

> > Private transport may occasionally break down or otherwise be
> > unavailable, but not all at once...
>
>If everyone who lives or works in Manhattan commuted by car, you would
>indeed see the private transportation system break down all at once.
>Even if they could all somehow magically get to their destinations,
>the vast majority of them wouldn't find a parking space once they
>got there.

Sounds like very poor city design to me.

>I hope the city government takes the opportunity to do the same thing
>that Reagan did with the air traffic controllers:  Fire all the
>illegal strikers, and replace them with people willing to work for
>wages closer to what most of their passengers earn.

Close...they are being fined $1,000,000.00/day for being on an illegal strike.

-- Mike B.