Gas Prices

[hkellick]

So.. a question (and another public entry!)

They're predicting gas prices to go up to $5 again for a while.

How much do you have to pay to fill up your vehicle before the price of gas outweighs the convenience of having your own vehicle? How much until you switch to biking/walking/mass transport?

If gas does go up to $5 or more per gallon, what do you intend to do?

Comments

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

I agree. And I further state that by chooses one's housing and its location carefully, one can get along fine using mass transit.

What makes Austin's mass transit system bad is that there is a LOT of "you can't get there from here" about it. Ithaca has very infrequent buses so you need to have the schedule memorized or in your bag to not wait in the snow for half an hour for the next bus. And both systems have very limited numbers of buses running after 9pm.

[lite.livejournal.com]

I don't recall Buffalo having a great bus schedule. The NFTA train was better, but not half as good as the Metro system.

I love Mass Transportation, especially in big cities, both on an intellectual level (I dunno why, but the process of creating a city from very small town to metropolis is fascinating. Possibly too much SimCity.)

Unfortunately, small cities seem to be rotting from inside (all cities are, it seems, with the money flying into the suburb, but it's especially obvious with smaller, poorer cities.)