[Ipg-smz] The train from hell?

[James Gaskin]

Another question could be why are we moving people like cattle to trap them
inside the buildings of the most high-tech companies on the planet? Why
take the train when you can telecommute? Maybe David's wife is a doctor or
a plumber so she has to put hands on things. Otherwise, reduce rush hour
traffice. Dallas' downtown is almost all white collar knowledge worker
companies - financials, legal, accounting, software, PR, management, etc.
If those people worked from home all or most days, rush hour traffic
would be cut in half.

No more train from hell, or in Dallas, traffic jams from hell.

Thanks,
James


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On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 1:54 PM Christine Hall via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

> "Public transportation needs to get to the level where an event like
> this brings out the 60pt headlines, or electronic equivalent."
>
> One morning shortly after I moved to NYC in '69, there was a subway
> accident that resulted in a full page headline and photo on the front
> page of the Daily News. The headline proclaimed in huge type above and
> below the photo - "Forty Thousand Delayed!" Below that, along the bottom
> of the page, in much, much smaller type - "Two People Dead"
>
> That was quite an education on priorities for this 18-year-old kid who'd
> just moved to the big city.
>
> Christine Hall
> Publisher & Editor
> FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
> http://fossforce.com
>
> On 10/29/19 1:58 PM, Stephen Satchell via Ipg-smz wrote:
> > And the high-brow left want us to shift to public transportation.  No
> > thank you.  The good news is Uber was still working...at least until Jan
> 1.
> >
> > Public transportation needs to get to the level where an event like this
> > brings out the 60pt headlines, or electronic equivalent.
> >
> > On 10/29/19 10:51 AM, David Needle via Ipg-smz wrote:
> >> My wife just emailed me this from her office in Palo Alto:
> >>
> >>
> >> very quiet here -- Caltrain horror stories from the SF commuters -- the
> >> train doors wouldn't open when they stopped in Palo Alto! same thing in
> >> Mountain View!  people were freaking out. Finally got off the train in
> >> Santa Clara or something and took an uber to work -- $45 and 2.5
> hours...
> >
>
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