What is your preferred mode of transportation?
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Re: What is your preferred mode of transportation?
Posted by Gorbachev on Sat Jun 19th at 6:37am 2004


This question is a bit skewed. It asks what our preferred method of transportation is...but then it says if we had the money for it. Because personally I like walking, biking and public transit. But if I had the free money to support it I'd buy a nice truck. (not an SUV, a real truck.) [addsig]



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Re: What is your preferred mode of transportation?
Posted by Gorbachev on Sat Jun 19th at 6:39am 2004


? posted by Juim
I own a Ford F-150 P/u truck. Guess I have been driving Pick ups for about 11 years now. I use them in my work and at my house for remodel purposes(Lumber, drywall, etc). The only drawback is that family members always call when they need something picked up.

I drive me a '90 F150. It's my father's, but with the cost of gas and the non-necessity of needing a truck, it's just there when I need it. I love it though, my dad's a carpenter/cabinetmaker so it gets used for lumber, furniture and the like. As well as garden duties. I think its nickname "The Beast" suits it well.

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Re: What is your preferred mode of transportation?
Posted by wil5on on Sat Jun 19th at 7:00am 2004


I'm in Adelaide and I use the bus. The bus system in Adelaide is good, provided you know how everything works. Theres a cool set of tracks, like... train tracks for buses, made of concrete... Gets me to the city centre in about half an hour where it would normally take 40min to an hour by car.

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Fast Facts

  • At 12 kilometres long, the Adelaide O-Bahn is the longest and fastest guided bus service in the world.

  • More than 7 million passengers a year, including local, interstate and overseas visitors, use the O-Bahn. The system is capable of moving 18,000 people an hour in each direction.

  • The busway consists of 5,800 sleepers, 5,600 pylons drilled to a depth of 3 metres, 4,200 track pieces, 25 bridges, 8 pedestrian overpasses and a 60 metre-long tunnel.

  • Compared with equivalent rail systems, the O-Bahn is almost 50 per cent cheaper to operate while providing a faster, more flexible service than many other transit systems.

  • At the time of building, the entire O-Bahn project, (including the bus fleet) cost $98 million
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Re: What is your preferred mode of transportation?
Posted by Cash Car Star on Sat Jun 19th at 7:37am 2004


I'd buy me one of them Segways



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Re: What is your preferred mode of transportation?
Posted by JFry on Sat Jun 19th at 8:06am 2004


I'd buy a yacht! It doesn't have to have a golf course or olympic-sized pool on it. Any old yacht will do.



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Re: What is your preferred mode of transportation?
Posted by $loth on Sat Jun 19th at 8:20am 2004


Hovercraft!!!!! if only they existed......... [addsig]



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Re: What is your preferred mode of transportation?
Posted by beer hunter on Sat Jun 19th at 8:38am 2004


A Jetpack with a 600 mile range that was cheap to run

And a few rockets to blow up caravans, grrrr !




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Posted by Rumple on Sat Jun 19th at 8:54am 2004


? posted by $loth Hovercraft!!!!! if only they existed.........

ermm they do exist


more pics...

I live near Sydney and the public transport is terrible trains always run late (or not at all, sometimes replaced by busses), (and now the government says that 10min late is actually not late ) busses are not much better and in quite a state of disrepair, The light rail (tram) system howeve is quite good as well as the monorail. The government were deciding wether to build one of those mag-lev super fast trains linking Sydney to the South East Coast & Canberra region but now that is not going to happen
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Re: What is your preferred mode of transportation?
Posted by Forceflow on Sat Jun 19th at 10:12am 2004


I'm a bicycle man ... definitely. [addsig]



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Re: What is your preferred mode of transportation?
Posted by Orpheus on Sat Jun 19th at 1:45pm 2004


? posted by $loth
Hovercraft!!!!! if only they existed.........

sometimes sloth, you make my head hurt.

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Posted by wil5on on Sat Jun 19th at 2:36pm 2004


Hovercraft 0wn j00.

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Re: What is your preferred mode of transportation?
Posted by Biological Component on Sat Jun 19th at 6:29pm 2004


Apparently, an equal number of people ride horses as drive trucks... [addsig]



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Re: What is your preferred mode of transportation?
Posted by $loth on Sat Jun 19th at 7:32pm 2004


? posted by Orpheus
? posted by $loth
Hovercraft!!!!! if only they existed.........

sometimes sloth, you make my head hurt.

ones which travel on land?

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Posted by ReNo on Sat Jun 19th at 7:34pm 2004


Ummm, there are ones that travel on land and ones that travel on water, but I guess one of the best features of them is that they can all basically travel on both!
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Posted by $loth on Sat Jun 19th at 7:35pm 2004


? posted by ReNo
Ummm, there are ones that travel on land and ones that travel on water, but I guess one of the best features of them is that they can all basically travel on both!

as SJ proves : He turned the supply on, and the coil hovvered about 2 inches off the table.

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Re: What is your preferred mode of transportation?
Posted by scary_jeff on Sat Jun 19th at 9:14pm 2004


What the hell is going on? Don't bring me into this insanity



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Re: What is your preferred mode of transportation?
Posted by Gwil on Sat Jun 19th at 9:46pm 2004


*me hands $loth a larger shovel*

keep digging
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Re: What is your preferred mode of transportation?
Posted by Kain on Sun Jun 20th at 1:21am 2004


why do some cops in New York still use horses? and do they sell grass at gas stations?



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Posted by Wild Card on Sun Jun 20th at 1:28am 2004


? posted by Orpheus
within reason people, no 767 jet liners, or black hawk choppers

SGS-233a my friend

I voted other. If not that, then the city bus.

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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Jun 20th at 1:29am 2004


? posted by Kain
why do some cops in New York still use horses? and do they sell grass at gas stations?

this is actually one of the funniest lines i have seen all week..

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