Originally Posted by SCNGENNFTHGEN
(Post 5726422)
You got that right...and I'd rather the gov't stayed out of the car business myself!
Originally Posted by SCNGENNFTHGEN
(Post 5726445)
Buses, trains, trollies....phooey! I'd rather drive my own car anywhere, than get on any kind of public transportation! It's all the same to me! I have family in san fran, who is forever trying to get my whole family to get rid of our cars! It's about to come to a head too. Next time she starts in with this nonsense, I'm letting her have!
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Mass transit is a great thing! More trains means fewer trucks on the road, which means less congestion, better pavement, and cheaper diesel.
And I'd like to see how someone gets around a major airport without the evils of mass transist. Wouldn't it be better if the necessary buses were built by GMC with Detroit Diesel engines and Allison transmissions instead of by foreign companies like BAE and Bombardier? Shockingly enough, GM used to own the market in locomotives, trains, and heavy trucks while still building some kick-ass cars. The two activities are not mutually-exclusive except in the brains of the feeble-minded (that covers both certain members of this board, as well as the GM management that decided to sell off so much of the company in the name of dividends and fat bonuses). |
Originally Posted by Eric Bryant
(Post 5726843)
Wouldn't it be better if the necessary buses were built by GMC with Detroit Diesel engines and Allison transmissions instead of by foreign companies like BAE and Bombardier?
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Originally Posted by Eric Bryant
(Post 5726843)
Mass transit is a great thing! More trains means fewer trucks on the road, which means less congestion, better pavement, and cheaper diesel.
And I'd like to see how someone gets around a major airport without the evils of mass transist. Wouldn't it be better if the necessary buses were built by GMC with Detroit Diesel engines and Allison transmissions instead of by foreign companies like BAE and Bombardier? Shockingly enough, GM used to own the market in locomotives, trains, and heavy trucks while still building some kick-ass cars. The two activities are not mutually-exclusive except in the brains of the feeble-minded (that covers both certain members of this board, as well as the GM management that decided to sell off so much of the company in the name of dividends and fat bonuses). Now is when you could drill and maximize what we have in our grasp, as far as resource within our own borders. < Parentheticly, I fear the government will find the present low prices of gasoline an opportunity to add $.80 to $1.00 in tax to the pump price.> Between a reverse migration to urban as opposed to suburban living spaces, combined with aggressive utilization of cheap fuel in our own realm of influence, we could actually explore the viability of alternative energy. |
Originally Posted by Eric Bryant
(Post 5726843)
And I'd like to see how someone gets around a major airport without the evils of mass transist. Wouldn't it be better if the necessary buses were built by GMC with Detroit Diesel engines and Allison transmissions instead of by foreign companies like BAE and Bombardier?
Nothing is quite as sexy to my ears as the the song of the Detroit Diesel 2 cycle engine... The Ferrari of the truck world!:yes: Fast S.O.B.. The real monster Detroit Diesel's would weep oil at every seam, but my Lord did they make the "juice".:usa: |
Originally Posted by Darth Xed
(Post 5726404)
Speaking of this, does GM still own most or even a part of their Electro-Motive locomotive buisness anymore?
Btw, didn't GM, Ford etc.. rip out the rail lines in Detroit so that more commuters relied on car transport? |
Originally Posted by SSbaby
(Post 5727058)
Btw, didn't GM, Ford etc.. rip out the rail lines in Detroit so that more commuters relied on car transport?
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Originally Posted by Z28x
(Post 5726527)
So no bail out, no loans, let the big 3 die? I think it is too late for keeping gov't out of the car business.
No insurance, no car payment, no maintenance, and best of all no chance for DWI. :) When you go to a country with good mass transit and come back home to the US.. you kinda feel like you just entered a 2nd world country. I LOVE GOOD MASS TRANSIT. i really really really hate that about this country - and for everyone in this thread that is bashing it is because they have never been anywhere where it WORKS and is widely used! |
Originally Posted by Darth Xed
(Post 5726344)
IMO, mass transit only makes sense in dense urban/city environments.
Even if we're just talking buses, the longer the routes get and the lower the amount of passengers on each one the less sense it makes. Without a large migration back to the city, it's a losing game. |
Originally Posted by SSbaby
(Post 5727058)
Btw, didn't GM, Ford etc.. rip out the rail lines in Detroit so that more commuters relied on car transport?
GM wanted to sell buses to the transit companies, and the transit companies were looking for a way to make a quick buck by selling the tracks for scrap. Within a few years, most of private transit companies had folded and were socialized. |
Also in the 1970s, the government encouraged Boeing to go into the transit market to make up for the decline in war contracts. Many cities, including Boston and San Francisco, decided to "Buy American" and use Boeing trains.
The result was a disaster -- the trains were terribly unreliable and expensive to operate. It would probably be very difficult for a new company to be successful in the transit market. There's so many other companies around the world with expertise and proven products. |
Originally Posted by Good Ph.D
(Post 5727161)
Exactly, and at the moment, most major cities are far from dense.
Even if we're just talking buses, the longer the routes get and the lower the amount of passengers on each one the less sense it makes. Without a large migration back to the city, it's a losing game. |
Originally Posted by 1fastdog
(Post 5727036)
When I hear the words "Detroit Diesel" I get lofted off to a special place in my memory.
Nothing is quite as sexy to my ears as the the song of the Detroit Diesel 2 cycle engine... The Ferrari of the truck world!:yes: The best sounding V8 is an 8V71. The best sounding V6 is a 6V92. |
More rail would be cool, but without "railways" what the **** would building more trains solve?
They've long ripped up most of the railways around here. The only one I know of that is relatively close (if I have to drive anymore then 20 miles i'll just drive to the city myself) will only send me east or west. That's it! Sad things is I don't see the Govt ever being able to buy that land back; overhead rail might be an option, but all the idiots will protest that because it ruins their scenic environment (ie: the windmill problem). The only solution I see is to get back to more efficient "smaller towns". When the Walmarts of the world have dried up all the small places that I used to be able to go shopping and now have no choice but to drive 25 miles to Indianapolis; what did they expect would happen? |
Originally Posted by Chrome383Z
(Post 5727630)
The only solution I see is to get back to more efficient "smaller towns". When the Walmarts of the world have dried up all the small places that I used to be able to go shopping and now have no choice but to drive 25 miles to Indianapolis; what did they expect would happen?
http://www.cnuflorida.org/resources/...er_article.pdf |
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