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Informed but opinionated commentary and analysis on urban transportation topics from the Secret Worldwide Transit Cabal. Names have been omitted to protect the guilty. Our Mission: Monkeywrench the Anti-Transit Forces
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E-mail: transitcabal -AT- gmail.com (EDIT before sending!) Please report dead links News Sources www.planetizen.com www.lightrail.com www.lightrailnow.org www.funimag.com. Funicular RRs Skepticism/Baloney Detecton Practical Skepticism Site The Fine Art of Baloney Detection (Carl Sagan) www.spinsanity.org Pro-Transit Sites Victoria Transportation Policy Institute Vitriolic Critic of American "Urbanism": www.kunstler.com Protransit Site in Cincinnati Protransit Site in Toronto SeattleMonoJabsAll.pdf Critics / Anti-Transit Sites Prime Transit Disinfo: www.rppi.org Wendell Cox's Website Randal O'Toole: www.ti.org/antiplanner 
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Monday, July 29, 2002
Wendell Cox's Weird Arithmetic From the Cabalmaster: RE: Wendell Cox’s Faulty Arithmetic In his recent commentary on the National Review website , Wendell Cox apparently is incapable of doing simple arithmetic. According to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) the http://National Transit Database, public transportation in the United States carried about 9.6 billion trips in 2000. This calculates out to 34 annual trips per capita for the 283 million residents of the United States, a 3% market share if trips are considered, rather than the somewhat misleading passenger mile measure favored by Cox. According to posted by The Cabalmaster, Master of All Transit-dom 7/29/2002 06:58:00 PM
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