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To: Diana in Wisconsin

BTW, the answer is to get businesses to move out into the country. After all, in the internet age, a fair number of these jobs could be done from anywhere.

This is especially true in the DC area. There is almost no reason for a million people to be commuting into DC each day just to push papers around and answer phones and do office work.

If we spent a billion dollars moving some government work into the Maryland and Virginia suburbs, we wouldn’t have to widen the roads, or spend more on the subway and buses.


16 posted on 07/16/2008 6:08:49 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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They've moved a lot of business into the suburbs here in the Twin Cities and it's a disaster. People all live in different suburbs from different distances, so just as much gas is used, and the freeway system is terrible because everybody is commuting every which way. For a while I worked in an office park in Minnetonka and it was a nightmare getting there. Now I work in downtown Minneapolis and it's great.
24 posted on 07/16/2008 6:19:57 AM PDT by MinnesotaLibertarian
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