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  4. From: carl@aoa.aoa.utc.com (Carl Witthoft)
  5. Subject: Re: Cost of public vs. private transportation
  6. Message-ID: <1992Jul22.121657.11970@aoa.aoa.utc.com>
  7. Organization: Adaptive Optics Associates
  8. References: <1992Jul20.222201.27582@s1.gov> <21978@venera.isi.edu> <JMC.92Jul20201524@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  9. Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:16:57 GMT
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  12. In article <JMC.92Jul20201524@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
  13. >BART is currently raking off a half percent sales tax in the counties
  14. >it "serves".  I'm not sure whether this is paying off its bonds
  15. >or if it is just a subsidy of its operating costs.
  16. x
  17. And do all you public-transit bashers out there think there aren't
  18. major league gov't subsidies supporting private transport? Who
  19. builds those roads, plows them (in the north :=) ), feed the hungry
  20. gasoline company mouths, etc?
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  22.  
  23. -- 
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