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ThomCat

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Mon Jun-11-07 05:05 PM
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Am I the first?

Who proposed this, you rock! :yourock:

Public transportation and smart growth are definitely subjects that need more attention.

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marmar

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Mon Jun-11-07 05:09 PM
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1. Can I just add....

That I agree that who ever proposed this, :yourock:!!!

I love public transit, even though I live in a state where it's an absolute joke. But I'm obsessive about smart growth and transit, even though I live in suburban sprawl.

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Berry Cool

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Mon Jun-11-07 06:22 PM
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2. Same here.

I'm glad to see this group. It will be nice to find other people who don't look on public transportation as that icky-poo thing that only the poor, disenfranchised and "creepy" do.

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whistle

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Mon Jun-11-07 07:37 PM
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3. Great idea, the choices in Orlando FL are pretty sparse, the Lynx Bus

...system and....uhmmm your legs and thumb. Even the multiple car pool lanes on I-4 have been quietly abandoned. Yet, with a typical tourist population of perhaps 200,000 highly mobile people every day and a resident population of perhaps 1.6 million in the Orlando DMA, the need for alternative public transport alternatives to the private car and rental cars is tremendous. There has been lost of discussions and studies and proposals over the last 45 years, but the highway/road lobbies and republican land grab developers have always won out.

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nxylas

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Tue Jun-12-07 11:14 AM
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9. My first visit to the US was to Orlando

This was before I met my American wife and moved here permanently (from England). I managed to get between the various theme parks and other attractions using the Lynx buses, but I'd imagine it's a different story if you actually live and work in the city.

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NJCher

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Mon Jun-11-07 08:32 PM
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4. count me in!

I look forward to reading this forum.

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nxylas

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Tue Jun-12-07 07:15 AM
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5. That would be me

Thanks for the compliments, folks.

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Kolesar

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Tue Jun-12-07 10:00 AM
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6. I rode the bus to school for 12 years. I took the bus to college. I lost my virginity in a bus

So you're not the first.
*Note that there are possible problems with the veracity of some of the statements in the subject line

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ThomCat

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Tue Jun-12-07 10:12 AM
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7. Whatever problems there may be with veracity

it still sounds like you've got some interesting stories to tell. :P

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Kolesar

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Tue Jun-12-07 10:14 AM
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8. Well, there was the rider hailing Jesus on a snowy night outside Indianapolis

I'll have to reconstruct that tale sometime. Been a few decades.

Great idea for a new forum! :bounce:

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Vogon_Glory

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Tue Jun-12-07 07:54 PM
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10. About Time!

I appreciate this forum being here. I had thought that those of us who wanted to discuss transit were supposed to post in the environmental/energy forum. That was a poor fit.

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