Re: highways to tomorrow

[Ken Medlin <dev-plan@moscow.com>]

> it will always be 
>subsidized (just like wheat farming).
Is the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit system) still subsidized, or do they 
pay their way now? If the Oakland-SF Bay Bridge Aithority had not put in 
the "fast auto commuter lanes" to promote multi-passenger cars, perhaps 
BART would have done better. In Europe and NYC/Chicago/Boston (more 
density, of course) rapid rail transit does pay for itself. Before GM 
bought out the LA street car system (l946) and put in GM buses 
(non-polluting, of course) that system was self-supporting. Then there's 
always that question, Who decides?  Who pays?  According to the recent DN 
piece about Lt. Gov. Butch Otter's plan for an I-95, it's already been 
thru the planning stage and, now, who's going to put   this monster on 
us, that "the people", according to Otter's political philosophy, have 
decided they want! Who went to the hearings?  Comment?

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