On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Baxter wrote:

I don't see how this is diminishing productivity. Its not so hard to
plan your schedule around the transport schedule

Irrelevant. In a free society, people justifiably demand the freedom to
go exactly where they want, exactly *when* they want.

"Beam me up, Scotty" - because THAT's what people want.

Well, certainly, Baxter, but since this is the real world and not Star
Trek, we want the highest degree of "where and when we want" we can get,
and that's private auto transport.

DS