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Article #20Re: HOV abolished!
From: John Ata - FSO
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 16:41
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 16:41
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In article <1992Oct5.170037.29338@linus.mitre.org> woycke@smiley.mitre.org (Daniel Woycke) writes: > >Congressman Wolf used alot of ingenuity so that he can get reelected. >He has done very little other than vote the straight party line for >the last two years. Wolf did not push for the funding for a study on >a train to run along the center of the Toll Road. This makes more >sense than HOV lanes or even the Toll Road. I think a sane mass >transit policy would make all the difference in the world. >All he wanted was to >get relected, good issue to do it on I guess. Alot of people are going >to fall for it, and then its back to politics as usual. > >Daniel W. Woycke |"I went out drinking with Thomas To be fair, Congressman Wolf was opposed to the HOV lane before it was actually enacted. So if your gripe with him was that he correctly guessed what the public reaction would be and acted accordinly then I don't even think he would disagree. As to whether he could have pushed for studies and didn't, do you happen to know the reason why he didn't push for funding for a Metro line down the center? I'd be quite curious to know what you think his motives were for failing to do this. -- John G. Ata - Technical Consultant | Internet: ata@hfsi.com HFS, Inc. VA20 | UUCP: uunet!hfsi!ata 7900 Westpark Drive MS:601 | Voice: (703) 827-6810 McLean, VA 22102 | FAX: (703) 827-3729
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Newsgroups: dc.driving Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!hfsi!ata From: ata@hfsi.uucp (John Ata - FSO) Subject: Re: HOV abolished! Message-ID: <1992Oct6.164148.12496@hfsi.uucp> Organization: HFS, Inc., McLean VA References: <1992Oct3.005850.25366@hfsi.uucp> <1992Oct3.010314.25500@hfsi.uucp> <1992Oct5.170037.29338@linus.mitre.org> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:41:48 GMT Lines: 28