[VegChat] Public Transit?

[Jayme Dunlop]

While nobody can argue that buses are the most fuel efficient means of 
transportation, not everyone is driving around a compact Toyota.  There 
is also the issue of traffic congestion, which is reaching epic 
proportions here in Toronto.  My commute home is taking 50% longer than 
it should, Eglinton street is a mess 

I haven't been back to Ottawa in over a year, what exactly is this new 
light rail system going to be like?  Is it just an extension of the 
rail system running through Carleton that goes to South Keys?  That 
train system was such a waste of resources! 

vaalea wrote:


>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??
>
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>From: "David Wardell" <em664 at freenet.carleton.ca>
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>> 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.
>> 
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