home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: dc.general
- Path: sparky!uunet!hfsi!ata
- From: ata@hfsi.uucp (John Ata FSO)
- Subject: Re: HOV and why it should be!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.140856.17878@hfsi.uucp>
- Reply-To: ata@hfsi.UUCP (John Ata FSO)
- Organization: HFSI, McLean VA.
- References: <1992Sep3.195012.10751@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:08:56 GMT
- Lines: 50
-
- In article <1992Sep3.195012.10751@linus.mitre.org> woycke@smiley.mitre.org (Daniel Woycke) writes:
- >Well, personally I think the people who are complaining about traffic
- >on the toll road should think about the reasons for that traffic. If
- >everybody was in a carpool I bet traffic would flow smoothly. Perhaps
-
- That's exactly the fallacy with the HOV restriction. It assumes that
- by making driving hell for everyone, that we will all see the light and
- car pool. Yet, I haven't seen one survey or study to support this conclusion.
-
- >you could use mass transit. The express busses from Dulles Corner,
- >Herndon, and Reston are nice (I used to take them). Or perhaps you
- >could do as I do 2-3 times per week, I bike in (15 miles from
- >Herndon). I would do it more, but my wife doesn't want me to risk
- >riding in a thuderstorm and I can't take the bike on a Metrobus. You
- >folks who piss and moan about it taking forever to get to work should
- >think about the cause of congestion, its all them darn cars.
-
- No, it's a shortage of lanes, sorry. The cars were there first before the
- lane was taken away.
-
- >
- >The reason the carpool lane was put in was to reduce polution. Yes,
-
- Surely you jest! Show me how pollution is being reduced by this fiasco.
- A car taking 2-3 times as long to make a commute is surely going to
- pollute 2-3 times as much if not more.
-
- >Virginia did it for money, but the money was given to reduce polution.
- >I personally think that the implementation of the HOV lanes on the
- >toll road stinks (there should be physical separation), but I think it
- >is a good idea. I think the bus system should be upgraded as well as
- >the train ideas accelerated. I would also like one lane on Rt. 7
- >reserved for bicylclists, but thats dreaming.
-
- If people want to reasonably encourage car pooling, how about charging
- reduced tolls for car poolers? They now have in some cases toll booths
- reserved for HOV only. This would encourage car poolers, while not
- penalizing those who cannot carpool. It would also be enforceable.
-
- >
- >Thank You,
- >
- >Daniel W. Woycke |"I went out drinking with Thomas
-
- You're welcome.
- --
- John G. Ata - Technical Consultant | Internet: ata@hfsi.com
- HFS, Inc. VA20 | UUCP: uunet!hfsi!ata
- 7900 Westpark Drive MS:601 | Voice: (703) 827-6810
- McLean, VA 22102 | FAX: (703) 827-3729
-