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- From: jeremy@classic.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon)
- Subject: Re: Alliance for a Paving Moratorium (Alert)
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Dec23.005006.2291@pbhye.PacBell.COM>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:35:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.005006.2291@pbhye.PacBell.COM>, mjvande@pbhye.PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman) writes:
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- [ excerpts lots of little anti-road factoids, including the following ]
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- > >>> Light rail is more cost-effective than freeway construction.
- > Estimates for urban freeway construction range as high as $1
- > billion per mile, while new light rail costs only $10 to $16
- > million per mile.
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- Where do they get this stuff? The light rail built in Santa Clara
- county was far more expensive than this, while the freeways were far
- less expensive. Don't they think they can make their point without
- gross exaggeration?
-
- jeremy
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