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- From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Alliance for a Paving Moratorium (Alert)
- Message-ID: <D2150035.m4i05y@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 01:33:58 GMT
- Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Organization: Peirce Software
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- In article <1992Dec23.230121.12630@pbhye.PacBell.COM> (ba.transportation), mjvande@pbhye.PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman) writes:
- >
- > Your comments are worthless, unless you propose better figures. Plan a light
- > rail line (not BART -- we are talking about light rail) & an EQUIVALENT
- > freeway (in person-carrying capacity: one rail line = several freeway lanes)
- > and THEN do the comparison.
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- To me the comparision would be
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- freeways <-> heavy rail
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- main roads <-> light rail
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