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Article #14384Re: Traffic Congestion (2020)
From: Josh Turner
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 00:00
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Bentley wrote: > > In misc.transport.road Aaron M. Renn <arenn@urbanophile.com> wrote: > : Bentley wrote in message <8F7p1.434$wf.186581065@newsreader.digex.net>... > :>Frankly I fail to see the need for these future planning boondoggles > :>anymore. We are now in EXACTLY what the 1950's and 60's regional plans > :>predicted: gridlock. We chose it. We said "no more roads." And we're stull > :>saying "no more roads. Ever." Let's save the millions of dollars thrown > :>away on these master plans, as nobody wants to hear the bad news. > > : The vast bulk of cities decided to build all the roads they could in the > : 50's and 60's, yet most of them (at least the ones of any size) suffer from > : gridlock as well. Obviously roads haven't proven a solution either. > > Josh, that is a correct observation, for the most part, but rather ignores > the operative parts of my post. Perhaps you missed this part: Twern't I that posted that...
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,bd61e3661a9da019 X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public X-Google-Thread: f7890,bd61e3661a9da019 X-Google-Attributes: gidf7890,public From: Josh Turner <shua@umich.edu> Subject: Re: Traffic Congestion (2020) Date: 1998/07/11 Message-ID: <35A6B70A.34FD@umich.edu> X-Deja-AN: 370365627 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8b085772&3.0.32.19980709084121.00752dc0@pop.erols.com> <8F7p1.434$wf.186581065@newsreader.digex.net> <6o33lq$7lb$1@news.megsinet.net> <3ihp1.466$wf.406519962@newsreader.digex.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: shua@umich.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 20:55:58 EDT Newsgroups: dc.driving,misc.transport.road