[sustran] Re: Anti-car propaganda that is blindly accepted as truth

[mpotter]

Really?  What train?  What road?  Those are broad categories.

Property values are sometimes a good indicator of what's going on.  In 
Japan, residential property 5 minutes walk  from train stations is 
noticeably  higher in value than that 25 or 30 minutes walk away, where 
as housing along expressways is cheaper.  Though my research is less 
than comprehensive,  I find the same to be true in Chicago.

Mark Potter
Fukuoka, Japan

On Sep 24, 2004, at 3:25 AM, Daryl Oster wrote:

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> Alan Howes
>> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:40 AM
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>> I note that the (no doubt male) writer prefers to remain anonymous.  I
>> would love to see his face if a new road was planned next to HIS back
>> garden.
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>> Alan
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> His countenance receiving such news would likely be sanguine compared 
> to the
> pallor that would befall him upon news of a train track instead of a 
> road.
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> Noise is usually the main objection of the NIMBYs.  Trains are much 
> louder
> than roads.  A maglev train like Transrapid is about the same sound 
> pressure
> as a road.  ETT (see www.et3.com ) uses less than 1/50th of the energy 
> per
> passenger as a train, and Maglev is 128 times more sound pressure than 
> the
> virtually silent ETT.  The capacity of ETT is 10 times greater than a 
> road
> or train, and much faster.
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> Daryl Oster
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> et3 at et3.com , www.et3.com
> POB 1423, Crystal River FL 34423-1423  (352)257-1310
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