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bobmnu @bobmnu (8157) • United States 11 Aug 11

I had the chance to visit friends in a large city and their house was on the route taken by 3 different buses. What I noticed was that the buses were running empty most of the day and during the rush hour they had about 5-7...

Tax on miles driven - Government would track your travel

bobmnu @bobmnu (8157) • United States 6 May 11

It seems that the Government is considering a tax on miles driven. It is not clear if the gasoline tax would be eliminated (Governments rarely eliminate a tax). What troubles me is the government is looking to raise more money...

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Why aren't there electric street cars in the U.S. anymore?

toms65 @toms65 (84) • United States 25 Aug 10

Because in the 1930's, GM, along with Standard Oil, Firestone Tires and several other corporations formed a company to buy municipal; streetcars systems, dismantle them, and replace them with buses. In April 1949, a Chicago...

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Transportation Head to de-emphasize Cars in Transportation planning

bobmnu @bobmnu (8157) • United States 1 Apr 10

It was announced that in planning the automobile will be de-emphasized and more resources will be devoted to bicycles, walking and mass transportation. In the Utopian Society this sounds soooo nice. In reality it is the gasoline...

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Transportation Funding

bobmnu @bobmnu (8157) • United States 14 Apr 09

This past weekend I traveled through several large cities. I noticed that in cities with large mass transportation the roads were in very poor shape. As I was driving in Chicago, IL it was reported on the radio that in some...

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Raise the Gas Tax to pay fo new Bridges

bobmnu @bobmnu (8157) • United States 24 Jul 08

Congress wants to increase the federal gas tax $0.05 to $0.10 per gallon to pay for new bridges. My suggestion would be to remove all projects that are not building or maintaining the highway system and make them a user fee like...

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WTF?!??! McCain ad blames Obama for rising gas prices

Wendy @jerzgirl (9384) • United States 22 Jul 08

(Mon, Jul/21/2008) The Associated Press [i]WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidate John McCain is launching a new television ad that blames Democratic rival Barack Obama for rising gasoline prices. The ad, airing on...

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Are You Driving Less Because of the High Gas Prices?

elmiko @elmiko (6630) • United States 27 May 08

I'm not driving less. Everythings pretty close by where I live. I did notice on the news the traffic is less on the road. Oil prices are going down now due in part to people not driving as much so there should be some relief at...

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what do you know about airplane of the world?

giva007 @giva007 (25) • Indonesia 30 Mar 08

i think there are many things about aircraft that intresting to discuss. and i want to share my favourite topics with you... ok now, i want to know what do you think about this topic... ;-)

Reduceing the price of Gasoline

bobmnu @bobmnu (8157) • United States 13 Nov 07

How can we cut the cost of Gasoline? I would suggest that we start by cutting the gas tax. The gas tax was established to pay for our highway system and to maintain it. It seems that we could reduce the tax and improve the...

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No seats available---do you offer yours?

favefive @favefive (178) • United States 23 May 07

I wonder how many people are out there, male or female, would offer their seat to someone when the ride is full? Like on a train, bus, etc? Do you pick the person you give it to? Do you just give it to an older person, or a woman...

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Sick of mass transit!!!

friggy @friggy (207) • Romania 14 Dec 06

Everyday i have to take the bus or the subway for going school. The bus is full all the time, lot of peuple ho trying to get a place in the bus!!! I'm sick of that!!! My alternate option is the subway, but i have to change a lot...

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