Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: The insane progress nobody is talking about Date: 27 Jun 2024 22:06:45 -0000 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="8581"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 1623 Cryptoengineer wrote: > >My case is a clear no go - there's a commuter rail station about a >mile away, but the Boston commuter system as designed with the >assumption that everyone wanted to go to the city center - my last work >place was about 8 miles out, but NW of town, while I live W of town. Boston and DC both have systems built that way, with no rings at all, and it is increasingly limiting their usefulness as fewer and fewer people are working in the city center. In the case of Boston the commuter rail is actually a lot better than the subway, but the subway is a major problem. In the case of DC there is talk about adding some rings in the future and there is a good chance of the purple line happening but it's really too little and too late. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."