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Re: Distance to work (was "...sprawl...")

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From: Rex Tener
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1992 02:31
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JCiccare@adobe.com (John Ciccarelli) writes:
>slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com writes:
>
>> All of which would seem to argue for a small-scale, flexible
>> commuter transportation system.  Maybe we should try individual
>> commuter units.  .... You suppose anybody'd buy one?
>
>Yep, I use one myself -- it's called a bicycle.  Six miles in 25 minutes. 
>Door to door, leave anytime, no gasoline, no waiting at bus stops or in 
>traffic lines, no pollution.  And 25 pounds of metal, which is about 
>3,000 less than the "units" *you're* thinking of :-)

Yep, I use one myself -- it's called legs.  Six miles in 42 minutes. 
Door to door, leave anytime, no gasoline, no waiting at bus stops or in 
traffic lines, no pollution.  And 0 pounds of metal, which is about 
25 less than the "units" *you're* thinking of >:-)  >:-)

>Try it, it works.  Your wallet, your heart, your neighborhood, your air,
>your planet, and the US trade deficit will be better for it.

Ditto.

Rex Tener                                                 rtener@pyramid.com
Pyramid Technology                                            A.M.A. #580669 
                                                                    JETN REX
"Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air." - F.D.R. (1944)
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Subject: Re: Distance to work (was "...sprawl...")
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