OT: is hitchhiking legal or not (in US)

[John Varela]

Oh yea, true...Europe is such a uniform place. When I walk through my local
town I can hear 3 different languages spoken within 10 minutes from people
with completely different cultural backgrounds.

That home town wouldn't be Paris, would it? You know, the place with the
riots.

I join new2subaru in defending the invasion of Iraq. Every European
intelligence service

 

[Stephan Rose]

That home town wouldn't be Paris, would it? You know, the place with the
riots.

Nope, just a tiny little town in Germany...

--
Stephan
2003 Yamaha R6

kimi no koto omoidasu hi nante nai no wa
kimi no koto wasureta toki ga nai kara

 

[L. Ross Raszewski]

I don't understand why everyone in the US fights such a system so
much. I remember when Florida was supposed to get a high-speed train
system to connect all the major cities. It would have been wonderful!
But the governor did a good job and making sure it wouldn't happen
DESPITE the people having VOTED for it (gotta LOVE democracy at work
here)!

The US would truly be the perfect place for this. You have huge, long
distances that are perfect for those trains capable of going 200 miles
per hour. Beats sitting in 70mph congested highway traffic, doesn't
it?

You could reduce the distance between say Florida and New York, which
is a common route for many people, to less than half the time it takes
by car.

I just don't understand why it is not done.

The thing that I find europeans tend not to "get" about the US is just
how spread out it is. I live in a major city with fairly good local
bus and train service. I can catch a commuter train to the town where
I work -- but then what? My place of business is about ten miles from
the town center, where the bus depot is. The local bus service can
get me to the nearest commercial area, but now I've taken two busses
and a train and *I'm still twenty minutes walk from work*. The
country was built on the assumption of car travel. Maybe not an
efficient design, but it has other advantages.

CLose as I can tell, Europe is a continent full of big cities with
*nothing at all* in-between. When europeans comment on the relative
state of US mass transit, they're thrown off by the fact that, even if
every US city had a great local mass transit system (and most of the
mhave pretty good ones already), and every city was connected by a
high-speed train line, this would *still not cover the majority of
people*.

 

[Al]

The thing that I find europeans tend not to "get" about the US is just
how spread out it is. I live in a major city with fairly good local
bus and train service. I can catch a commuter train to the town where
I work -- but then what? My place of business is about ten miles from
the town center, where the bus depot is. The local bus service can
get me to the nearest commercial area, but now I've taken two busses
and a train and *I'm still twenty minutes walk from work*. The
country was built on the assumption of car travel. Maybe not an
efficient design, but it has other advantages.

CLose as I can tell, Europe is a continent full of big cities with
*nothing at all* in-between. When europeans comment on the relative
state of US mass transit, they're thrown off by the fact that, even if
every US city had a great local mass transit system (and most of the
mhave pretty good ones already), and every city was connected by a
high-speed train line, this would *still not cover the majority of
people*.

Amen. I live in the Boston area. A number of years ago we had a few
visitors from Belgium at our facility. One Monday, they told me that
they wanted to drive to Provincetown on the Cape. They said they were
astonished at how long it took them to get there. After all, when you
look at the map, it's so close. They said that if they had driven that
far in Belgium, they would have been in Bopnn, German. They just don't
get it!

Al

 

[Stephan Rose]

The thing that I find europeans tend not to "get" about the US is just
how spread out it is. I live in a major city with fairly good local
bus and train service. I can catch a commuter train to the town where
I work -- but then what? My place of business is about ten miles from
the town center, where the bus depot is. The local bus service can
get me to the nearest commercial area, but now I've taken two busses
and a train and *I'm still twenty minutes walk from work*. The
country was built on the assumption of car travel. Maybe not an
efficient design, but it has other advantages.

CLose as I can tell, Europe is a continent full of big cities with
*nothing at all* in-between. When europeans comment on the relative
state of US mass transit, they're thrown off by the fact that, even if
every US city had a great local mass transit system (and most of the
mhave pretty good ones already), and every city was connected by a
high-speed train line, this would *still not cover the majority of
people*.

Oh I "get" it alright having spent 10 years of my Life in the US and I
realize very well the limitations due to size. That's still not an excuse
that there couldn't be better transportation between at the very least the
major cities.

I'll accept that you can't connect every dog hut to every other dog hut
with public means. But the major cities could be doing much better.

Oh and, you aren't very close with what you can tell. Europe is anything
but a continent full of big cities with nothing at all in-between. Matter
of fact, that applies to the US far more than it does to Europe.

Europe tends to have dozens of small towns between the major cities.

This area of Germany for example, you tend to have a different town every
2-3 miles. No, I am not kidding...

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Stephan
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[bsr3997]

Oh I "get" it alright having spent 10 years of my Life in the US and I
realize very well the limitations due to size. That's still not an excuse
that there couldn't be better transportation between at the very least the
major cities.

I'll accept that you can't connect every dog hut to every other dog hut
with public means. But the major cities could be doing much better.

Oh and, you aren't very close with what you can tell. Europe is anything
but a continent full of big cities with nothing at all in-between. Matter
of fact, that applies to the US far more than it does to Europe.

Europe tends to have dozens of small towns between the major cities.

This area of Germany for example, you tend to have a different town every
2-3 miles. No, I am not kidding...

I think his point was more along the lines of that you don't have big
open spaces between the big cities. The little towns just blend into
the nearby city. There are parts of the US like that, but in more of
it you can go 10 miles without seeing a building of any kind.

Bruce