The author of the particular Seattle article was using bikes and carpooling and vanpooling as what should be done "instead of" rail in Seattle. Of course, its all a shell game, where if there was any ballot issue trying to raise money to support any of those, the "Coalition for Transport Alternatives" would certainly not be leading the charge to get the issue passed.
However, in the Eurotrib version of the Trains and BRT should be friends diary, Migeru presented what I take as a quite striking argument for trains over BRT ... if even a steam train can beat a BRT ... what could a Sparkie do! I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
I am trying to read today a number of diaries I had no time for in the past week (when on most days I had to stay up at 5 or 4 o'clock and returned home at 20h, with other stuff waiting for me on the computer), your newer ones among them. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
