From: jgrove24@hotmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 2:41:10 PM UTC-5, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   > Stephen Sprunk  wrote:   
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   > >On 30-Jul-14 12:28, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
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   > >>hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
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   > >>>Stephen Sprunk wrote:   
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   > >>>>Note that, in many cities, the beltways are just as congested, if   
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   > >>>>not moreso, than the routes in/out of downtown.  At least for the   
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   > >>>>latter, half the trip will often be uncongested, depending on the   
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   > >>>>time of day.   
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   > >>>These days, with so much suburban office park development, beltways   
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   > >>>can be extremely congested, as you say.  Only beltways are   
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   > >>>congested all day long, seven days a week.   
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   > >>>I arrived by train in downtown Chicago.  Driving through city   
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   > >>>streets was no problem until I hit the suburbs--then the bad   
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   > >>>traffic jams started.   
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   > >>You know, hancock: We have trains into the suburbs as well, many of   
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   > >>which leave from that very same train station.   
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   > >Indeed, but many suburbs don't have local bus routes (at least to where   
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   > >you want to go) and/or taxis waiting.  These stations are used only as   
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   > >origins, not also as destinations.   
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   > We also have car-rental places in the suburbs. We also have hotels with   
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   > vans that pick people up at train stations. Who the hell would want to   
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   > visit Chicago, then rent a car downtown?   
      
   Lets list the reasons:   
      
   1. Avoid Airport car rental taxes.   
   2. Wider choice of companies besides the majors at ORD.   
   3. Staying downtown and only wanting a car for the day to travel the boonies.   
   4. Avoiding the long wait for a shuttle bus at ORD terminals and the schlep to   
   some remote rental yards.   
   5. Rent-a-Wreck don't have no ORD presence.   
      
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