Homestead mailing list

[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I suppose you are right, Lynn.  Still, it cost , I believe, 1.4 Billion 
dollars.  There had to have been a better way.  I don't know anyone who 
intends to use it for its propsed puprose, though everyone says it is 
'pretty" and 'neat'.  It was just about a month ago, a passenger stabbed a 
bus Driver to death in NYC because the bus driver asked him to please pay the 
fare.  Acooroding to the article, bus drivers are not told to make people pay 
their fares; if the driver is afraid of the way the passenger looks or acts, 
he just lets the passenger ride for free.  'kind of Darwinian 
......................................................

------------------------------------------------------------------------


--- On Fri, 1/2/09, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:


> 
> I went to graduate school in north Philadelphia (Temple U),
> one of the worst 
> neighborhoods in the city. I rode the decrepit 50-year-old
> trolly through 
> the city everyday. Later I dragged my young children around
> on buses to 
> doctors and play dates. People who truly believe in public
> transit have no 
> problem rubbing elbows with the unwashed masses...today I
> AM one of those 
> unwashed masses. :-)
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Homestead list and subscription:
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/homestead
> Change your homestead list member options:
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/homestead/bobford79%40yahoo.com
> View the archives at:
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/homestead