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- From: les@SAIL.Stanford.edu (Les Earnest)
- Subject: Re: Cycling and Environmentalism
- In-Reply-To: elr@trintex.uucp's message of Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:43:48 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:56:40 GMT
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- Ed Ravin writes:
- [. . .]
- Let's start naming names and not stereotyping. I'd be upset about those
- kind of folks too, like the executive director of a local development
- corporation in the Bronx who wants to turn a railroad right-of-way into a
- parking lot rather than a bikeway. But she's not an environmentalist,
- and I wouldn't sully the word by calling her one.
-
- Why not convert it to something more useful: a road? If there is some
- reason why that won't work, then a pedestrian path or a parking lot
- sound to me like better uses for that land.
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