> From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> More accurately, we're #1 at being last. One look at our passenger rail
> service will tell you everything.
HAH! Tell me about it!
I lived in Switzerland. They know how to do trains. I rode two of them, twice a
day. They have funiculars: two tracks with cable-connected cars that
counter-balance each other. They have cog railways ("zahnzug") for when it gets
too steep in the mountains. (Makes an awful racket!) They have spiral railroad
tunnels, bored right through the Alps.
And excellent public transportation, which is run by the postal service (PTT) -
brilliant! You can literally take public transportation to anyplace that can
receive mail. Want to visit Aunt Hilda, waaaay up in the Alps? The last leg of
your journey may well be riding shotgun in the local mail delivery truck.
:::: An American is a person who demonstrates against a new power plant, then
goes home and flips on all the lights, turns up the air conditioner, puts a
tape in the stereo, opens the refrigerator door, plugs in the coffee maker and
sits down to see if the television cameras caught him protesting. -- Wendell
Trogdon <http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=Wendell+Trogdon> ::::
:::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op <http://www.ecoreality.org/> ::::
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