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Article #1055Re: Rebuildca.org promotes growth-addiction in California
From: Alan Moore
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 05:08
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 05:08
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On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:16:12 -0700, {STP} <stp@nospam.now> wrote:
>In article <a20f7b76.0406231804.4356f671@posting.google.com>,
> enough_already@lycos.com (Enough Already) wrote:
>
>>
>> It doesn't sound like you know what you really stand for. I don't live
>> in L.A. but I've seen enough of it and the Bay Area to know that
>> building more and more roads has not worked and never will.
>
>Really?
>
>Does that mean removing existing roads will work,
No. It means that no matter how fast we build new ones, we cannot keep
up with the demand.
>or have we just
>magically settled on exactly the right amount of roads right now?
In the time I've lived in the Santa Clara Valley, we've gone from no
freeways at all to hundreds of miles of them. Traffic is worse now
than it was when I was a kid here -- much worse. I think that's what
he's getting at, and frankly, I agree.
Al Moore
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