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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!sun-barr!ames!pacbell.com!pbhye!mjvande
- From: mjvande@pbhye.PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Alliance for a Paving Moratorium (Alert)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.002600.12884@pbhye.PacBell.COM>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 00:26:00 GMT
- References: <D2150035.m4i05y@outpost.SF-Bay.org> <1992Dec30.002028.12690@pbhye.PacBell.COM>
- Reply-To: mjvande@PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman)
- Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
- Lines: 16
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- >>> 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.
- >>
- >>To me the comparision would be
- >>
- >> freeways <-> heavy rail
- >>
- >> main roads <-> light rail
- >
- >Actually, a light rail line can carry the equivalent of a freeway, I
- >am told. They can reach 55 MPH or more.
-
- Actually, I believe that a heavy rail line can carry far more than any
- freeway full of SOVs, so is in a class by itself.
-