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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Interstate Freeway System (was: Cost of public vs. ...)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.162104.449@cco.caltech.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 16:21:04 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.135049.25666@pmafire.inel.gov>,<=mR-8C#@engin.umich.edu>
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- In article <=mR-8C#@engin.umich.edu>, blagdon@engin.umich.edu (Kenneth James Clark ) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul22.135049.25666@pmafire.inel.gov> cdm@pmafire.inel.gov (Dale Cook) writes:
- >>
- >>As I recall (sorry, no references), part of the justification for the
- >>interstate freeway system was military: to facilitate the rapid
- >>deployment of troops anywhere in the country. That would partially
- >>justify the expenditure of general funds to build it.
- >>
- >
- >As I recall, that was the *main* justification.
-
- Don't forget that there were supposed to be fallout shelters under all the
- interchanges.
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