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Date Posted: 18:11:00 03/31/07 Sat
Author: Dupree
Subject: Bus vs. Taxi vs. Hitch-hiking

I'm sure that many people have racked their brains over how to realize affordable, efficient transportation on Cortes without the need for everybody to own and insure a vehicle. It's frustrating that all legal options are prohibitably expensive. A taxi has been tried and I expect that a bus would be similarly unsuccessful. The legal liability is too onerous for both these options and no-one can be expected to transport Cortesians for free.
The only real option is hitch-hiking and that is not reliable either. You take your chances whether any vehicles will drive by and secondly whether they will stop to pick you up. As imperfect as it is this is the way it has always been. No one HAS to pick up a hitch-hiker. Perhaps if hitch-hikers were willing to pay a fare to help cover the expense of having a car people would be more inclined to stop and pick them up. Just stopping, picking a person up and resuming speed consumes more gas than just driving by. Maybe a "donation" of a looney for short rides, a tooney for longer ones and $4-5 to take someone out of one's way would be acceptable. Hitch-hikers would eventually be picked up based on their history of willingness to chip in. It still boils down to volunteering on both sides. The driver volunteers to stop and pick you up and that is far more likely if hitch-hikers volunteer to chip in a few bucks.

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