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Subject: Re: travelling to Italy - need your advice!!! Posted on: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:49:07 +0100

The Reid wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:25:29 +0100, d4g4hd@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne,
> _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
>
> >> PT is never going to be viable in low to near zero population areas.
> >
> >Most of the places you go to in your life on leisure are easily
> >accessible by PT. You don't use it because you have a car. That's the
> >way most people act. Fair enough, but don't pretend otherwise.
>
> you constantly pretend remote country areas are easily accessible by
> PT, if we argue for hours you eventually say "ok, I'll settle for not
> going" If you want to go hillwalking in the highlands an occasional
> bus isn't going to get you onto the hill, to the fishing lake, the
> birdwatxching site, the photographic location when you need to be
> there.

People manage it all the time.

[]
> >I think noise, and I think what makes most of it in my life. It ain't
> >planes- most of us don't live near airports, or at 30,000 feet.
>
> Fine, so . anyone who is under your flightpath when you fly off all
> over the place for weekends. Talk about totally selfish and only
> seeing aspects YOU want to see.

No, it's a question of what people hear the most, and as I said, most
people don't live near airports, but nearly everyone hears cars.

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