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Article #434Re: Why speed limits in Texas are rising
From: Jeffrey W. Janner
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article <4lm7vf$7tn@newsgate.sps.mot.com>, Gordon Gunn <ggunn@aton.sps.mot.com> wrote: } In article <4leung$57j@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> Nestor J. } Presas, nestor3@ix.netcom.com writes: } > With most of the state flaming about driving conditions in } >Austin,(and with good reason) this is the third Austinite, that felt it } >was his duty to defend the city of his peers. And he is asking US to } >develop a little tolerance! } } Just for the record, I was not defending Austin, or any place, } for that matter. There are good and bad drivers everywhere. } I've lived and drived in a *lot* of other places, and, on the } whole, Austin is no better or worse than any of them. Think } about it, what attribute of a section of the populace (i.e., } "bad" drivers) would cause them to accumulate in any particular } locale? } } What I mean by "tolerance" is a resistance of the impulse to } try to impose one's driving style (good or bad) on others by } tailgating, flashing lights at, flipping off, honking at, } screaming at, swearing at, et al the"offending" party (and if } they "get away", on whomever is available). I don't give a } flying (expletive, deleted) *what* city you're in. } Well, this seems to be the general driving "style" in Austin. That's whgat makes it such a fun place to drive! -- Jeff Janner | jwjanner@tamu.edu "Read a Book!" -- Handy
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10bedf,df84947de7722d9b X-Google-Attributes: gid10bedf,public X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,a449c240c329d297 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e16d,public X-Google-Thread: 103916,df84947de7722d9b X-Google-Attributes: gid103916,public X-Google-Thread: 10b82c,df84947de7722d9b X-Google-Attributes: gid10b82c,public X-Google-Thread: 104ad1,df84947de7722d9b X-Google-Attributes: gid104ad1,public X-Google-Thread: 109097,df84947de7722d9b X-Google-Attributes: gid109097,public X-Google-Thread: f52a6,be17f2a68004864 X-Google-Attributes: gidf52a6,public From: jwjanner@tamu.edu (Jeffrey W. Janner) Subject: Re: Why speed limits in Texas are rising Date: 1996/04/26 Message-ID: <jwjanner-2604960010360001@tfia02.cs.tamu.edu> X-Deja-AN: 151490488 distribution: world references: <4lb8d6$vmm@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <4lgh65$khv@ns1.arlut.utexas.edu> <jwjanner-2204961814360001@tfia05.cs.tamu.edu> <4lm7vf$7tn@newsgate.sps.mot.com> organization: Texas A&M University newsgroups: tx.general,houston.general,austin.general,tamu.general,dfw.general,austin.autos,rec.autos.driving,r