[VegChat] Public Transit?

[vaalea]

Well, now they are doing that light rail to the airport.... ?
when I heard light rail, I was thinking in my head something more along the 
lines of a monorail. I'm a bit disappointed because I HATE the look of all 
those wires hanging across the streets. I thought one thing to make the 
city/neighbourhoods more beautiful was burying hydro/telephone wires (was 
discussed for the glebe), but now we are going to have the messy tram-style 
wire-covered streets??


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Wardell" <em664 at freenet.carleton.ca>
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Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 10:48 PM
Subject: [VegChat] Public Transit?


> Consider,
>
> An O.C. transpo Bus uses approximately 150 liters of diesel fuel per 
> hundred kilometers travelled. The average number of passengers carried 
> throughout the day on a O.C. transpo bus is 15.
>
> This gives an average fuel consumption for the bus fleet of 10 liters of 
> deisel per hundred kilometers for every passenger.
>
> Compare this to a the new small car such as the Toyota Echo or Honda Civic 
> which use about 5 liters per hundred kilometers.
>
> This is half the fuel per passenger a bus uses. Also, if you have a 
> passenger on board, then the fuel use per passenger is only one quarter 
> used by the bus.
>
> More than this even, is that the new passenger cars have emissions control 
> and pollute very little, while the bus has no pollution controls what so 
> ever and causes air pollution equal too several hundred Honda's.
>
> Dave W.
>