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In Message <1992Sep15.143938.23581@hfsi.uucp> ata@hfsi.uucp (John Ata FSO) says:

>I can't speak for everyone, but I can tell you why I live 16 miles
>from work.  It's called housing expense.  The distance from work
>was mandated if I wanted to be able to afford housing.

Strangely enough, this is EXACTLY why my wife and I moved to Centreville -- we
kept looking at houses further and further from Washington until we found one
we could afford (and we moved to Virginia from Bowie, MD to be closer to work).
As consulting luck would have it, we are 22 miles FROM THE BELTWAY via the toll
road and currently 31 miles from our current client (with whom, fortunately, we
both have contracts so we can commute together). No choice whatsoever.

In HOV-related commentary -- how many of the HOV cars that are now appearing in
droves on the HOV lanes are NEW HOV cars (have to admit a radical increase there
with a somewhat decrease in non-HOV cars). I know that if -I- had been traveling
on 66 and someone told me there was a 55mph lane available a couple miles away
going to the same destination and it just cost 85 cents, it wouldn't take me
very long to change my driving path -- sure hope those with a point to make (VDOT)
-ask- HOVers if they're new ones or old ones with new routes (which means, for those
who don't get it, that the HOV lane has -not- produced the necessary results (albeit,
maybe perhaps "yet"); it has merely rearranged existing conditions for HOVers with a
stupendous increase in inconvenience for non-HOVers (backup is now almost to Herndon
Parkway (1st exit after 28))).

Russ <Smith@ur-guh.com>