To: presidio9
"If a roadway is priced -- that is, if drivers have to pay a fee to access a particular road
Then not a dime of my taxes should have gone into any aspect of that roadway's construction.
But I agree that carpools are a joke - the lanes are empty most of the time while traffic crawls along in the other lanes. The only solution is more freeways.
To: AnotherUnixGeek
But I agree that carpools are a joke - the lanes are empty most of the time while traffic crawls along in the other lanes. The only solution is more freeways. Worse, you often end up in a line of ten or twelve cars behind some retard who is doing 5mp below the speed limit, and you can't get out.
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02/12/2007 1:24:33 PM PST by
presidio9
(There is something wonderful about a country that produces a brave and humble man like Wesley Autrey)
To: AnotherUnixGeek
"The only solution is more freeways."
WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!
"Automobile traffic will expand to fill all space provided to it." - Buckminster Fuller
Another earlier poster was right: we have to get people out of their cars. Rapid rail works, and very well.
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