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Re: FWD: Legislator Is Driven to Lift Limits on Carpool Lanes

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From: John David Galt
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 02:18
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>> Someone is sure to respond with the tired mantra, "You can't build your
>> way out of congestion." Heard it, it fails the logic test.

Philip Crookes wrote:
> But the people who push for more freeways have always promised that their
> new projects will cut congestion, and now you're saying they don't?

They do, but the effect isn't permanent because population keeps growing.
This will always be true, so it will always be necessary to keep building
more freeways.  And everybody knows it.
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From: John David Galt <jdg@diogenes.sacramento.ca.us>
Newsgroups: la.transportation,ba.transportation,ca.driving
Subject: Re: FWD: Legislator Is Driven to Lift Limits on Carpool Lanes
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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 18:18:06 -0800
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