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- From: dean@vexcel.com (dean alaska)
- Subject: Re: Clinton, Gore, and the End of the Automobile Age
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.172519.23176@vexcel.com>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder, CO
- References: <1992Jul22.005849.16417@s1.gov> <BruItw.9BD@quake.sylmar.ca.us> <1992Jul31.014224.24971@nuchat.sccsi.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:25:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul31.014224.24971@nuchat.sccsi.com> kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown) writes:
- >In article <BruItw.9BD@quake.sylmar.ca.us> brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder) writes:
- >>
- >>> As the saying goes, your rights stop where my nose begins.
- >>
- >>So what have I done beyond your nose?
-
- Maybe the smog thats going up it?
-
- >>I am annoyed by the folks around LA
- >>who insist that I pay for a train system I hope I never have to use. Such
- >>people are overstepping my "nose boundary". If some people want to build
- >>a train and charge people to ride on it that's fine with me, but I don't want
- >>to have anything to do with such a waste of money, time, and resources.
-
- As a former Angelino, I knew plenty of people who never expected to use
- mass transit who supported it. The idea was that lessened smog and
- traffic would help those who still drove. Given the enormous sprawl of
- LA, it will be a LONG time until metro has any noticable effect but the
- feeling was that we have to start sometime. Also, the choice of heavy
- rail was a questionable one because the cost and time to build the system
- are so high.
- >
- >I can't agree more.
- >
- >Unfortunately, there seem to be a lot of people in the "coercion" crowd, who
- >seem willing to enforce the building of public transit, presumably because
- >it will be "better" for us in the "long run", when the real reason for such
- >willingness is probably simply that they want a good public transit system
- >and don't give a damn how much it will cost as long as *they* don't have to
- >foot most of the bill.
-
- Considering the number of people I knew who supported it but didn't expect
- to use it because its in a different part of town, your assumptions
- above is questionable. I would say that a lot of people are looking
- at "the long run".
-
- >>--Brian
- >
- >
- >--
- > Kevin Brown
- >
- > kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com
- > kevin@taronga.taronga.com
-
-
- --
-
- dingo in boulder (dean@vexcel.com)
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