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Article #63965Re: Lions Gate Bridge upgrade?
From: Terry Coatta
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 19:22
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 19:22
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Steve Leffler writes: |> |> Yeah, right. If you actually believe that the toll would ever be |> removed, I have some swamp land in Florida you might be interested in. :) |> Governments just don't give up sources of revenue that easily, and they're |> even less likely to if they've spent money putting in a fancy high-tech |> toll system. The Oak Street Bridge had tolls originally and I believe they were removed once the bridge construction costs has been recovered. -- Terry Coatta (coatta@cs.ubc.ca) Dept. of Computer Science, UBC, Vancouver BC, Canada `What I lack in intelligence, I more than compensate for with stupidity'
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,8c6c90b17c231e18 X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-02-15 11:22:52 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!xenitec!van-bc!cs.ubc.ca!ubc-cs!coatta From: coatta@cs.ubc.ca (Terry Coatta) Newsgroups: bc.general Subject: Re: Lions Gate Bridge upgrade? Date: 15 Feb 1993 19:22:52 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 16 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1loqicINNhap@cs.ubc.ca> References: <1lgqpiINNn8r@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> <1993Feb12.200243.24990@ee.ubc.ca> <1993Feb12.212347.2538@sfu.ca> <1993Feb12.230305.20939@mprgate.mpr.ca> <1lhjfsINNekr@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: cascade.cs.ubc.ca