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Originally Posted by Frisco_Zig
a need in a City like San Francisco that is in that awkward state of being sort of dense enough to make owning a car a pain but also not dense enough for truely good transit
Seems like living in Toronto they have better transit options
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I don't care how good the transit options are. You can only lug so much or so big a purchase on public transit. Public transit only goes so far out of town (almost by definition, not far enough to be "out of town"). In an extremely dense and gridlocked city like New York, I might choose to use a cab even though it were more expensive than the $16 a ZipCar would cost me for 2 hours simply because driving is such h*ll, but that's not the case in Toronto (I've been there) or any other North American city I've seen beyond New York. Even Chicago is driveable if you need to transport a lot more than just yourself.
And believe me, I'm a public transit advocate. I live carless in SF, get a transit pass every month I'm there and rely on it plus the occasional use of ZipCar.