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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!VNET.IBM.COM!nicho
  2. From: nicho@VNET.IBM.COM
  3. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  4. Subject: Re: Is car pooling for real? (was Re: Are bikes really less polluting?)
  5. Message-ID: <9207230842.AA15352@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
  6. Date: 23 Jul 92 08:39:36 GMT
  7. References: <k1-m61m@dixie.com> <1992Jul21.044006.15912@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <4xdmd6h@dixie.com> <Brsryo.BxL@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
  8. Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
  9. Reply-To: nicho@vnet.ibm.com
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  12. In <Brsryo.BxL@watserv1.waterloo.edu> Richard Bell writes:
  13. >"Environmentally friendlier", a bus can easily carry 40 people (and if I
  14. >were shorter, I might even say comfortably) a non-carpooling vehicle seats
  15. >one.  Compare one bus versus forty cars:
  16.  It's only better if the bus always carrys 40 people.
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  19. Greg Nicholls ... nicho@vnet.ibm.com or nicho@cix.compulink.co.uk
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