carpooling

[Lee Levitt]

Alex writes:
> 
> Nobody has a perfect answer for everyone's transportation needs, and
> nobody should.   But I do know this:  I used to live in one of the largest
> all-rental apartment buildings in the world (56 stories high, 980+ units)
> on the north side of Chicago.  In the morning, the traffic out the garage
> and on the side streets, trying to get onto Lake Shore Drive for a 3-odd
> mile trip downtown, was (and still is) up to an hour wait time for the
> whole drive.  To go three miles.  Alone.  In a car (or, as the case often
> was, an SUV.) And then do it again the end of the day.  After you do that
> a few hundred times, you start to think:  "What if 20% of these people
> shared a ride?  How could I facilitate that?"
> 

What if 20% of those people rode bicycles the 3 miles into town?

Shoot, I could probably lend them a few! <grin>

Lee
'01 Colnago C40
'99 Colnago Crystal race bike
'90 Colnago Spiral Conic SLX
'85 Colnago Super
'03 Hot Tubes Cross bike
'95 Cannondale T1000
'88 Wicked Fat Chance
'82 Bob Jackson fixxie
'81 Condor Cycles (retired, wall art)