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- From: sasjzs@falcon.unx.sas.com (Joseph Slater)
- Subject: Re: Highway 54 at 55 is open again.
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:28:26 GMT
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- In article <Bxv7xp.Cp2@unx.sas.com>, sasbrb@rolypoly.unx.sas.com
- (Brendan Bailey) writes:
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- |> I can't understand why people think this was a bad idea.
-
- The problem I have with it is demonstrated by the
- following equation:
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- train + car -> train.
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- Note that the car has ceased to exist on the right hand side
- of the equation
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- >It also probably cost a LOT less than building a new and longer
- trestle, but this was probably impossible without closing the train
- >track for several months.
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- This is exactly the reason. This ignores the fact that lights or
- no lights, people are going to become impatient or careless. Its
- a fact of physics that if the path of a car and a train never
- cross, they can't hit one another. Arguments about personal
- responsibility and natural select not withstanding.
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- |> Now does anyone know what the construction on I-40 between RTP and the
- |>Airport Exit is all about? Is that part of the outer belt loop?
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- That is correct. The first stages of the outer loop.
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- Joe Slater
- sasjzs@vms.sas.com
- Mine opinion is just that.
-