[OFB Cafe] Bio Fuels

[Derek Broughton]

On July 23, 2008 23:12:09 Kris Deugau wrote:
> Timothy Butler wrote:
> > 	A long time when you live either (a) in suburbia like I do or (b) the
> > wilderness like you do. How do you propose making mass transit make
> > sense when you live out in the hills? It seems to me mass transit only
> > makes sense if you stick to urban living, e.g. much of Europe.
>
> Or, oh, say, those big cities that Chris is so down on.  >:)
>
> (Acutally, even there it tends to be somewhat limited, although that's
> likely in large pare due to North American's attachment to our personal
> oil-guzzling transportation.  From experience I can say that mass
> transit to suburbia in Ottawa - at least, as of a few years ago, and I
> don't think the bus routes have changed *that* much - is pretty limited
> and not at all suitable for anything more than casual time-insensitive
> travel.  Downtown Ottawa is pretty good, most places you can usually
> catch a bus going somewhere close to where you want to get to within
> about 3 blocks and 10 minutes.)

That's unfortunate.  When I lived in Ottawa, on the edge of town, it had one 
of the best transit systems in Canada.  But that was in the mid '70s, and 
my "edge of town" would be practically "core" now.
-- 
derek