Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:00:15 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: jgrosch@sirius.com Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Message-ID: <199704222100.PAA00146@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <199704211643.JAA24288@superior.mooseriver.com> from "Josef Grosch" at Apr 21, 97 09:43:15 am
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> 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
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