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Sundays are good days to get together with kids and grandkids. We now have one grandchild with another due in a month. The problem is that we live on the west coast of Florida and our kids live in NOVA (Northern Virginia by D.C.), Cincinnati and soon, Birmingham, Alabama. That is one advantage of living in Western Europe, short travel distances and good train connections. I'm all for the kids' independence, as long as they live close enough to visit easily. This country needs to develop a web of ground transportation, probably trains for the longer distances and extended metros for closer in, with short term rental cars available at each of the destinations.
Sundays are good days to get together with kids and grandkids. We now have one grandchild with another due in a month. The problem is that we live on the west coast of Florida and our kids live in NOVA (Northern Virginia by D.C.), Cincinnati and soon, Birmingham, Alabama. That is one advantage of living in Western Europe, short travel distances and good train connections. I'm all for the kids' independence, as long as they live close enough to visit easily. This country needs to develop a web of ground transportation, probably trains for the longer distances and extended metros for closer in, with short term rental cars available at each of the destinations.
posted by alison @ 5:49 PM
2 Comments:
At 3:57 PM,
Hope said…
If it'd be profitable, why do you think it hasn't happened yet?
At 9:37 AM,
alison said…
It may not be profitable, or only profitable on shorter runs (D.C. to Richmond type distances). So those are the ones they should start with. But also, there is great resistance from the highway lobbies that profit from road construction.
Also, I'm not sure it always has to be profitable in the strictly economic sense. It may be appropriate to factor in externalities like long commute time, pollution, sprawl - all of which hurt a community's economic condition and its quality of living.
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