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- From: wcarroll@encore.com (William Carroll)
- Subject: Re: Roads and Taxes (was Re: NEWS: True Costs of )
- Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:56:24 GMT
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- jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
- >duanej@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Duane Jacobson) writes:
- >>And why shouldn't bicyclists bellow? Do you know of any city where there
- >>is a comprehensive bicycle transportation system? I've never seen one.
- >
- >No, and I know of no US comprehensively developed transportation based on
- >the rickshaw or the pogo stick or for people who walk on their hands
- >either.
-
- Of course, a large percentage of Americans own bikes. Can you say the same
- for pogo sticks and rickshaws? Lots of Americans use bikes as transportation.
- Is the same true for pogo sticks and rickshaws?
-
- Would you like to return to a realistic discussion, John? Or are completely
- ridiculous comparisons your only refuge?
-
-
- >>It can be downright dangerous to get anywhere on a bike.
- >>Snow is not usually cleared from these lanes in the winter, and in the summer
- >>they are littered with gravel, branches, glass, and dead animals.
- >
- >Might I suggest you avail yourself of some form of transportation more
- >amenable to conditions extant? Like, for instance, a car.
-
- So where is everyone going to drive those cars, John? Can they double the
- number of lanes on I-75 through downtown Atlanta once more? Are you
- willing to pay the bill for that project?
-
- And what about the people who can't afford cars? You know, those same
- working poor that will fair so badly under a gas tax. Since you are
- proposing a transporation system that requires a car, are you willing to
- provide a car to everyone that can't afford one? If not, how are they
- going to get to work? Or do they just go on welfare instead?
-
-
- And you never did say what you thought a cyclist's fair share of road costs
- would be. I'd love to see your numbers.
-
-
- --
- William R. Carroll (Encore Computer, Ft. Lauderdale FL) wcarroll@encore.com
-
- "We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form
- up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that
- we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method
- it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion,
- inefficiency, and demoralization." -Petronius Arbiter, 210 BC(?)
-