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Location: Northern Ireland and temporarily England
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Originally Posted by NorthStarDelight
Even in car-crazy Atlanta, there's a shift in policy towards increasing mass transit - people are getting tired of getting stuck in endless traffic jams regardless of how wide the roads get. They're making plans to extend one of the Marta rail lines 12 miles, which will cost $200 million dollars a mile.
I'm not against public transport, they have a fabulous train network in England, I just think that in rural areas especially we still have alot of space and we aren't driving horse and carriage so build wider roads/spaces. I hate the one way system... In Ireland as a whole we are very reliant on cars and they do not accomodate us..
Longing for the suburbs? In the 80s, 90s and early 00s, sure, but not anymore. People are flocking to the cities. The city centre population in Leeds in 1995 was like 900 and today it's over 20,000. In the 80s, 90s and early 00s, many families left the cities and moved to the suburbs, but their children (born in the 80s and 90s) are now returning to the cities.
Acajack said this, and also VicVega who loves the Ostrobothnian suburbs, that city living is cramped underdeveloped housing and crowded, and most of Europeans want to have a mcmansion like Owen and live in some hick f**k craphole if they just could afford it. And if they read this, of course no offence, both are posters I have a huge respect for.
Wow P London you are small for African heritage! My Newphew is already 5 foot and hes only 6!
That's a scary thought. I wonder if he'll be drafted for a US basketball team when he grows up - at that rate, he'll be 7 and a half feet tall when he grows up. I'm 6 feet tall now, but I was only 5'2" at the age of 13.
I'm not against public transport, they have a fabulous train network in England, I just think that in rural areas especially we still have alot of space and we aren't driving horse and carriage so build wider roads/spaces. I hate the one way system... In Ireland as a whole we are very reliant on cars and they do not accomodate us..
You have one-way roads outside the towns? I hate one-way streets myself - that's an idea that needed to be retired a long time ago.
Location: Northern Ireland and temporarily England
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No in the towns we used to have a normal system and then they got rid of it and replaced it with a one way system. Like I said the car spaces are way too small and our cars are bigger now, we have alot of pick up trucks here so the spaces are always taken up. (In the countryside most farmers use pick up trucks)
Again I know we are a small country but we still have lots of free space.. I feel like the spaces are designed for Japanese box cars.
Wow P London you are small for African heritage! My Newphew is already 5 foot and hes only 6!
You know Africa is huge, right?
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Are there a lot of tall people in your extended family?
