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  1. Newsgroups: ba.transportation
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!kudzu
  3. From: kudzu@netcom.com (Michael Sierchio)
  4. Subject: Re: Rail/MassTrans vs. Cars+IVHS
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec29.182351.793@netcom.com>
  6. Organization: True Love, and Home-Grown Tomatoes
  7. References: <D2150035.m4fueu@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
  8. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:23:51 GMT
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  11. In article <D2150035.m4fueu@outpost.SF-Bay.org> 
  12.      peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce) writes:
  13.  
  14. >Other countries have 120MPH Highways, there is no technical reason
  15. >that the US can't have them either.  The politics of the federal safety
  16. >nazis are the reason we don't have higher speed highways.
  17.  
  18. Have you driven in Europe lately?  Speed limits are coming down, and
  19. unlimited highways are disappearing.  Could it be because France, Germany
  20. and Italy each have more traffic fatalities than the U.S. with a fraction
  21. of the population?
  22.  
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  25. |  Michael Sierchio                          1563 Solano Avenue, Suite 123 |
  26. |  kudzu@netcom.com                                Berkeley, CA 94707-2116 |
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