From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 22 20:48:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA01959 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 20:48:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.konnections.com (mail.konnections.com [192.41.71.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA01947 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 20:48:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from castle (root@ip191.konnections.com [192.41.71.191]) by mail.konnections.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id VAA10293; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 21:47:04 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <335EE479.482AB1F2@konnections.com> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 21:41:29 -0700 From: mike allison Organization: Publisher -- Burning Eagle Book Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.0 i486) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC CC: jgrosch@sirius.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) References: <199704222100.PAA00146@xmission.xmission.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Wes: I have to differ.... The subway system in New York was initiated in the late 1800's and most the others were around long before the 2nd WW and WAY before IKE. The reason we don't have inner city mass transit is that no one uses it in the west. Their too wed to their cars. The east coast is closer and less distance oriented, most things could be had in the neighborhood and the majority of the people were immigrants who had a much more social and socialist background and could appreciate the utility of mass transit. Pre & Post WWII we had a booming interstate train system which fell apart thanks to the highway system... and the ready availability of cheap gasoline... I also believe the term Info Superhiway was around before '92.... could be wrong... -Mike Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC wrote: > > > 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