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- From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Rail/MassTrans vs. Cars+IVHS
- Message-ID: <D2150035.m4fueu@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 00:58:54 GMT
- Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Organization: Peirce Software
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- In article <1992Dec23.184829.12223@adobe.com> (ba.transportation,ca.environment,talk.environment), jciccare@adobe.com (John Ciccarelli) writes:
- > I too see IVHS as an attempt to keep the single-occupant auto at the
- > center of urban transportation. It's yet another example of
- > extrapolating the status quo, like the "Future 120 MPH Highways" I used
- > to read about in Popular Science when I was a kid in the 60's.
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- Other countries have 120MPH Highways, there is no technical reason
- that the US can't have them either. The politics of the federal safety
- nazis are the reason we don't have higher speed highways.
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