Re: Metrocard Gripe

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From: Rex
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 00:00

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Alan Miles <amiles@interport.net> wrote:

>>In article <4p5fmj$29t@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>, Thrawn
>><Thrawn@Chimera.Ship> wrote:
>>

>Well I'll leave the question of homeless or mentally ill people aside.  They're not pleasant, but they are ours. DC has them too, ev=
>en if they're tossed off the subway.

Amen.

>Anyway, "efficient" is a nebulous term.  I'd say the NYC subway is a better means of navigating New York than DC's is for navigating=
> the Distict.

Double Amen.
 
> And it certainly serves a larger portion of the population. 

Absolutely true.

> And it was even built without (massive) public subsidies=>!  Efficient?  New York!

Of course.

>BTW, I've lived in both places.  "Take Me Back to Manhattan...."

Same here.

>Alan Miles

I have finally found someone on Usenet who even remotely agrees with
me on anything.

Can the end of life as we know it be far behind?
--
Rex
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Subject: Re: Metrocard Gripe
Date: 1996/06/07
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