From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 22 14:08:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA04824 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 14:08:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA04786 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 14:08:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id PAA00146; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:00:18 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199704222100.PAA00146@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) To: jgrosch@sirius.com Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:00:15 -0600 (MDT) Cc: chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199704211643.JAA24288@superior.mooseriver.com> from "Josef Grosch" at Apr 21, 97 09:43:15 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Agree. The mass transit system in NYC is the best in America which is'nt > saying much. Not really, both the Boston and D.C. systems are better IMHO. You can, however, count on your fingers the number of U.S. cities with working public transportation systems that truly cover the urban area. Even Seattle and Portland (OR) have some gaping holes in their coverage. I think the list probably includes NYC, Boston, D.C., Chicago, and San Francisco. Maybe Atlanta. In case anyone wants to know, this was pretty much a conscious decision made by the Eisenhower administrations; they wanted to build the Interstate highway system and financed it at the cost of pulic transportation. The "intellectual" leader of this transportation revolution was none other than Al Gore Sr. This is where the campaign phrase "information superhighway" came from. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com