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Re: 30 Years-No Speed Improvement



In article <msadamsDAwz9u.BBv@netcom.com>, msadams@netcom.com (Michael Adams) writes:
|> Can anyone think of a technical field that has not improved its efficiency
|> in 30 years?  The only one I can think of is our highway system.  It is
|> hard to believe that in 1965 I could get from point A to point B as fast
|> or faster than today. 

	Your next sentence gives you the reason for the whole thing:  our
highway system is not a technical field anymore, it is more of an emotional
and political battlefield.

|> 
|> While the debate rages in Washington over raising the speed limit on
|> emotional issues, the question is what to do about a highway system that
|> has not improved at getting people more quickly to their destination in 30
|> years.

|> Michael Adams
|> -- 
|>                                              msadams@netcom.com

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