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11-27-2007, 11:11 AM

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all we need is a bullet train from la to vegas

no one will give up thier can in LA

they would rather sit in traffic than ride public transportation

Heck yea! A train to LA to Vegas! The japanese should bring over thier super fast magnet train over here.

Did you mean car? or can?

11-27-2007, 11:17 AM

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Heck yea! A train to LA to Vegas! The japanese should bring over thier super fast magnet train over here.

Did you mean car? or can?

france has a faster one

11-27-2007, 11:21 AM

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i do agree it is awesome, when it works. Its going to take a few years before we get something like that for LA, I mean NY/SF has a pretty awesome system, of course its not like Tokyo

the problem is the existing public transportation doesn't really serve us that well. It takes more time trying to get on the public transportation than driving our asses in traffic

Well according to urban development projects all around the world, new cities are being built with mass public transportation in mind.

Many cities are following the actions made by others such as charging a toll to enter a city with a private car unless a resident.

Public transportation in Tokyo is great, in the city each train stop basically puts you in a roughly 10 to 20 minute walk to where you need to be. Each stop is roughly 10 city blocks away from each other (JR, TM, Tobu, Keio, etc).

When Kenji815 goes to JAP-land for the first time, he'll know why I liked it so much.

Owning a car is not necessary unless you live in the sticks.

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11-27-2007, 11:24 AM

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all we need is a bullet train from la to vegas

no one will give up thier can in LA

they would rather sit in traffic than ride public transportation

maybe thats why people pray for the big earthquake so LA can be rebuilt the right way.

I have to give it up to Bay area for actually using public transportation because when compared to LA, ours is a joke.

11-27-2007, 11:26 AM

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the only thing we have is metro rail wich is kinda popular and the few trains we have

in la busses are popular but la is too spread out for real mass transit like SF or japan

11-27-2007, 11:27 AM

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the only thing we have is metro rail wich is kinda popular and the few trains we have

in la busses are popular but la is too spread out for real mass transit like SF or japan

right even the trains in LB are actually pretty good. Every stop in downtown puts you 5 minute walk away from anything over there. Imagine if there was something like that everywhere?

Never worry about parking your car, never worry about driving home drunk.

11-27-2007, 11:52 AM

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i use mass transit LB during the LB gran prix

i park at 2nd street for free and take the bus for 1$

11-27-2007, 12:58 PM

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11-27-2007, 01:19 PM

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actually, they were planning to extend BART to San Jo, but teh environmentalists and locals blocked it. It might be similar if LA decides to extend their "mass" transit. Maybe an earthquake here is in order.