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Stranded in Suburbia

nytimes.com — With rising oil prices leaving many Americans stranded in suburbia, it’s starting to look as if Berlin, a city of trains, buses and bikes, had the better idea.

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  • petebot, on 05/21/2008, -0/+2A big problem is that there is no money put into America's train systems. Not just local mass transit (Chicago seems to annually have a problem making money from the CTA, though I don't see how) but Amtrak. If we could get faster trains, it would make intercity travel by train so much more practical. As it is now, a train ticket is only slightly cheaper than an airline ticket, but the trip takes three times as long.
  • Coolaborations, on 05/20/2008, -1/+1Hey, PK! -- E.F. Schumacher would be impressed! :D

    Note that electricity cannot *always* be substituted for gasoline (petroleum) -- see also me recent tweets: http://twitter.com/nmw/statuses/803698951 and http://twitter.com/nmw/statuses/803699402
  • Jettparmer, on 05/19/2008, -5/+2Krugman is only partly correct. Europe's smaller cities exist due to scarce land, two world wars and a snail's pace economy. The application of smart growth to US cities makes sense, the application of high fuel efficiency (electric) cars makes sense but mandating public transport - without any realistic infrastructure is absurd. Nothing in the United States metropolitan area - save New York or Chicago - remotely presents opportunities for such conversion.

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