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Mike Dahmus  
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From: mdahNO_%_SPAMmus@iNO_%_SPAMo.com (Mike Dahmus)
Date: 1999/08/19
Subject: Re: Why Capital Metro Sucks, 8/19/99
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On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 16:05:47 +0100, +++jvpania...@alumni.utexas.net
(Highlander) hired an infinite number of monkeys to write:

>In article <37bd6ae6.24865...@news.io.com>,
>mdahNO_%_SPAMmus@iNO_%_SPAMo.com (Mike Dahmus) wrote:

>> On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 15:27:27 +0100, +++jvpania...@alumni.utexas.net
>> (Highlander) hired an infinite number of monkeys to write:

>> >San Antonio has more people (more cars), more highways, and less traffic
>> >problems (less travel time).  Their pollution problems dont seem to be as
>> >bad as they are here.

>> San Antonio is in basically the same boat we were in as far as air quality
>> ("in serious danger", will probably fall over the cliff this year or next),
>> and their city is already far uglier. "Houston Lite", IMO.

>> If you want to live in a city where highways are the only thing being built,
>> you have many alternatives where the environment has _already_ been destroyed
>> in order to do it.

>They still have less traffic and less problems than Austin.

>I never said mass transit is a waste of money.  I just said that Capital
>Metro is a waste of money.

Sorry. I jumped to the incorrect conclusion. Obviously to a certain extent I
agree about the current state of Capital Metro.

Mike Dahmus                             mdahmus at I O DOT COM
http://www.io.com/~mdahmus/  
"No one likes a pedantic smartarse..."


 
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