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- From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
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- Subject: Re: Cars and suburbs
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 19:32:16 GMT
- Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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- In article <C1Fpx4.4M6@ccu.umanitoba.ca> yschin@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Yu-Shin Chin) writes:
- >In article <1jtf19INN6tt@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes) writes:
- >|>
- >|> In article <22JAN199315572069@pearl.tufts.edu> ddeocamp@pearl.tufts.edu (DANIEL M. DEOCAMPO) writes:
- >|> >In article <1993Jan22.181151.6670@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, rcanders@nyx.cs.du.edu (Rod Anderson) writes...
- >|> >
- >|> >>Just because bicycling works for you does not mean that it is the solution
- >|> >>for all of the country.
- >|> >True enough; however, if even 20% (yes, that's arbitrary) of present
- >|> >car-driving commuters exercised another option, the results would be felt.
- >|> Let me be the cynic of the day and suggest that if 20% of the present
- >|> car-driving commuters exercised another option then they would simply be
- >|> replaced by another 20% who are waiting to take their places.
- >
- >Where would this extra 20% come from?
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- To quote from somebody else's post...
- (N.B. When I lived 6 miles from work, I cycled. Now I live 40 miles from
- work I drive.)
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