In article <1992Nov22.015612.13315@news.columbia.edu> gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare) writes:
>jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) writes:
>>
>>AS for the delays of waiting in lines for toll booths: this is a
>>red-herring. Complete non-issue! There are a number of systems
>>being tested where you put a sticker or something on your car,
>>and a scanner at the toll booth deducts the toll as you go by.
>>No waiting there. (testing in Houston I think)
>
>If technology can improve the quality of life to allow a user-pays
>shift, I'm all right with that ... but if you ever interview at IBM
>Research or Bell Labs and sit around a toll booth like I have, then
>you'll know what I'm talking about. I don't know how bad the traffic
>tie-ups across the Lions Gate Bridge is, I know that one of Canada's
>few toll booths are located there (i.e., that's how few toll booths
>we have up north -- I have to talk on a federal scale).
>
HELLO!!! Where have you been????? There haven't been any toll booths on the
Lions gate Bridge for somewhere between 25 to 30 years. The traffic tie-ups on the bridge are simply a result of selfish yuppie show-offs who are more concerned with their image than they are with the quality of air which we used to enjoy
on the West Coast. If they keep it up we might as well move to L.A. where they really know how to produce air pollution. I would love to see toll booths and forget making it easy, the longer the tie-ups the more reason there will be for
people to use public transport. Why should it be easy for the selfish and difficult for those who care??? What is really interesting is to watch the buses.
Those out of North Vancouver are jammed as they cross the bridge; West Vancouver buses actually have space left to sit. Kind of tells you something about those with more money than brains.
lort@sfu.ca BREATHE EASIER!! PARK YOUR CAR AND TAKE TRANSIT!!!!
