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Digi, I was NOT talking about HOV lanes lol.
I was speaking mostly about how the 'problem' isn't really traffic congestion, but rather that transit congestion is a symptom of an ACTUAL problem in our society. We're all so busy being afraid of anyone we don't know. People think strangers are dangerous, that EVERY stranger could be that 1 in 1000 who might be out to do us harm. That leads to many (most?) being unwilling to band together and be helpful to each other (with things like carpools for instance). That leads to us all driving our asses alone to and from work during rush-hour.
Imagine this for a minute... If we ALL met ONE stranger, TODAY, and started taking turns driving to work and back every day, TOMORROW, that would lead to an immediate, noticeable improvement in traffic congestion... When? TOMORROW!
All the public-transportation plans, highway/road plans, toll-booths and taxes in the world could not match that type of result, and here's the kicker. Not only would it cost less to 'implement', EVERYONE (since the hypothetical here includes 'EVERYONE') would immediately begin to save money (kinda like a tax-return!). Their would be less wear-and-tear on the roads, saving our governments money, which would allow them to spend in other areas or *gasp* actually return our taxes to us!
Of course, that's all pipe-dream stuff. But if we're going to talk about problems, the first key is finding their source. The solution... that takes getting EVERYONE on board... Haha! Good.Fucking.Luck. The bottom line is, we can't expect the government to fix every little problem that we have to deal with in society on an day-to-day basis. No government can tell people what to think, and no one wants to be told what to do. Sometimes, a population's collective mind-set needs to change on it's own.
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Captain Planet is gey.
Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Heart???
These forces are supposed to combine to create Captain Planet?
Bullshit.
Those forces combine to create a soaking, boiling mudstorm on Valentine's Day.
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