"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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Harold Walker wrote:
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On the BBC this am, there was a report that Greyhound Buses
will no longer serve off-the track rural areas, leaving many such
areas with no long-range public transport at all. I suppose this
is
Bush's response to dwindling oil resources....

Would he know a Greyhound from a Husky?

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Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the
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Does he know anything....my impression is that he is President in
name only with fellows like Rumfield and Cheney calling all the
shots

Wrenching back to the poor old Greyhounds -- an American icon for
me -- this mattter of rural public transport isn't _totally_
off-topic for a gardening group. We complain about it in UK, where
the problem is much less extreme than with America's long distances:
over there, it must be a nightmare for the public and the company
alike. Do American local authorities subsidise rural transport at
all, as is not uncommon here? ("Goddamn' European socialists!")

I have an eccentric fascination with West Virginia, and hate the
transition to driving on the right, so I tried wwwing the public
transport the "sparse" is too mild a word.

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Mike.

In some instances there are subsidies but in general far less than there
should be.....some socialism has its good points....we often refer to it as
liberalism....the long distasnce Greyhound business is still good...the last
time I used it a few years back I took a 30 day pass for $240...travelled
from Cape Cod to Boston to Chicago and then on to the north west before
dropping down to San Francisco and then down to LA and then further south
and then over to Las Vegas then to Florida and then up the east coast and
back to the Cape...one helluva bargain....get off the bus anywhere and go
anywhere....H