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- From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Interstate Freeway System (was: Cost of public vs. ...)
- Message-ID: <STEINLY.92Jul22144210@topaz.ucsc.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 21:42:10 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.135049.25666@pmafire.inel.gov> <=mR-8C#@engin.umich.edu>
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- In-reply-to: blagdon@engin.umich.edu's message of Wed, 22 Jul 92 11:43:08 EDT
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- In article <=mR-8C#@engin.umich.edu> blagdon@engin.umich.edu (Kenneth James Clark ) writes:
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- In article <1992Jul22.135049.25666@pmafire.inel.gov> cdm@pmafire.inel.gov (Dale Cook) writes:
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- >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.
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- As I recall, that was the *main* justification. Of course, General Dynamics,
- a division of GM, builds the nation's tanks. The highways were built
- after a major world war and during the cold war, when we were afraid of
- being invaded (Is anyone still afraid of the threat of invasion?).
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- Arguably the cross-country railway backbone (two major east-west
- trunks? or are there three?) were built in response to mid 19th
- century wars...
- most of Europes' rail was built for military movement,
- as was a significant part of the motorway network.
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- the military ever used the Highway System to move large amounts of
- personnel and equipment large distances? Maybe this is part of
- Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial Complex" bogeyman.
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- Don't know about "large" but there were a lot of convoys on the I10
- heading for pacific coast harbours about 21 months ago.
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