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david parsons wrote:

>
> >>
> >
> >Where is this mythical bypass around San Fransisco that you talk about?
> >Generally a bypass means you get near the city, then loop around it on
> >either side.
>
>     According to Websters, you're right on the second part, but wrong on
>     the first (assuming you're using definition #1):
>
>    Pronunciation: 'bI-"pas
>    Function: noun
>    Date: 1848
>    1 : a passage to one side; especially : a deflected route usually
>        around a town
>    2 a : a channel carrying a fluid around a part and back to the
>          main stream b (1) : SHUNT 1b (2) : SHUNT 1c; also : a surgical
>          procedure for the establishment of a shunt <have a coronary
>          bypass>
>
> Looping around SF on either side would either put you in
> >the ocean or the bay.  Last time I checked, my car isn't a boat.
>
>     It's probably not practical to loop around SF to the west, because
>     there's only ocean out there for a long long ways, but if you go east
>     there's the bulk of North America, which by happy coincidence includes
>     the land immediately east of SF bay.
>
>                   ____

If you want to consider that a bypass I guess you can.   That's a pretty lame
one though.  Go south around the bottom of the bay and then come back north
again... or like I said before, go east across the bay, north and then back
across again in to Marin.   That's just simply ridiculous.

Besides, why should East Bay communities bear the brunt of this extra traffic
because San Francisco decides it is too important to have a through route?
Isn't that unfair to ask them to take extra traffic?

If you're coming from Inland, it is logical to bypass San Francisco via the
East Bay.  If you're directly south of San Francisco, it makes no sense to go
inland.

Chris Hughes