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Re: LA metro rail and electric vehicles

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From: Michael Scott Ludwig
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 11:18
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ez008579@othello.ucdavis.edu (Dudley McFadden) writes:
=Whath with all the immigration, the entire Metro Rail / Metrolink system
=will merely OFFSET the effect of all the new residents 20 years from now!
=The freeways will remain crowded just the same.  In fact, if Metrolink to
=the southern Inland Empire succeeds, it will induce more people to move there
=(the tollway from Orange will do even more).

But in a different article, compata@cup.portal.com (David H Close) writes:
=Freeway access raises the value of property which has it.  Relative to other
=property which doesn't.  It certainly shifts population around.  I've never
=seen any evidence that the overall net effect is to increase population.

Obviously, one of these statements is false.  I've shown before which one I
think is true, but it seems like no one knows for sure.


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