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- From: whheydt@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
- Subject: Re: Rail/MassTrans vs. Cars+IVHS
- Reply-To: whheydt@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
- Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:15:41 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.191541.23579@pbhya.PacBell.COM>
- References: <D2150035.m4fueu@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
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- In article <D2150035.m4fueu@outpost.SF-Bay.org> peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce) writes:
- >
- >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.
- >
- >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.
-
- Which is ironic given the recently published statistics that the
- fatality rate went *down* in the states that adopted the 65 mph max.
-
- Other that the *old* California Basic Speed Law--"Reasonable and
- proper"--and Nevada's old habits, the highest US speed limit I know
- of ever existing was 80 MPH on the Kansas Turnpike. Anyone know of
- anything higher in US history?
-
- --Hal
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