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- From: bassuk@stein.u.washington.edu (James Bassuk)
- Subject: Re: Traffic: Getting from Reno to S. Lake Tahoe
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.025012.28859@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington
- References: <1992Nov20.075349.4657@nas.nasa.gov> <efbY032vbcfw00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <1992Nov24.000208.19187@nas.nasa.gov>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:50:12 GMT
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- eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
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- >In article <efbY032vbcfw00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> tom@uts.amdahl.com
- >(Tom Goodwin) writes:
- >>We get so tied to our cars that Tahoe gets to be a massive traffic jam; you
- >>might as well sit on a bus as in a car.
-
- >Ah, Gawd, tell me about it.
- >Our house is 2 miles S of the Y in Tahoe City. One weekend starting on
- >a backcountry overnight trip North of Squaw we got into a line South of
- >the Y. At the Y, I made the decision to drive the long way. We had a VW
- >camper which DIDN'T follow us. They stuck it out bumper to bumper
- >to pass Squaw. We drove the Lake shore to 267 all the way to Truckee,
- >then down 89 and got in the South bound line for a few minutes. We still
- >beat the VW bus by over five minutes at the cost of driving maybe 8 times
- >as far. Ah, the beauty of controlled experiments.
-
- >We have other tricks to avoid situations like this, but they are far
- >from perfect.
-
-
- SEEMS TO ME that you could have avoided the whole situation by avoiding
- the weekend, eh? :)
-
-
- Jim
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- Jim Bassuk, Ph.D.
- Dept. Biological Structure, Univ. of Washington
- NetworkAddress: Bassuk@U.Washington.Edu
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