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Article #467Re: On The Road To Smart Growth: Article: LA Freeway Fix-Up Won't Do
From: Dave Simpson
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 18:31
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 18:31
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spp@cs.berkeley.edu wrote: >>The concept of a "through highway system" as we know it today >>didn't even exist at the time. > >So? How childish. >>Speaking of planners and their original promises, I understand >>that the toll for crossing the Golden Gate Bridge was supposed >>to have been abolished as soon as the bridge was paid for. If >>you're really so reverent about holding the planners to their >>original promises, why don't you raise some hell about *that?* > >This has nothing to do with the topic at hand. [Whiff!] >>> And, by the way, do you even live in San Francisco? > >>Objection, m'lud: argumentum ad hominem circumstantial. > >>What if he doesn't? That wouldn't make him wrong. > >It might indicate that he doesn't care about the negative >impact such a freeway would have on people who live in the >city. It might, though it doesn't in my case. It also doesn't excuse your numerous inaccurate and illogical statements. >> You're obviously grasping about for an excuse not to take what >> Mr. Simpson says seriously without considering his words on >> their own merits. > >You're the one grasping about. Or flailing about, more accurately. > >Try again. No need. He's right, while you failed. Dave Simpson
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