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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (265071)	6/18/2002 4:46:11 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 769667

Yes exactly. They do want grid lock. They think if furthers their "smart growth" ( i.e. no growth ) agenda.

To: greenspirit who wrote (265071)	6/18/2002 7:01:25 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

<"we can't build any more roads". Well, why the hell not? People want to drive their car. If more roads don't work, why didn't we stick with one lane everywhere? They must want gridlock, it's the only logical explanation. > Gidday Michael! I'm just cruising by and spotted one of my hot buttons [and thought I'd say Gidday]. Communism is common despite the idea that the Cold War victory over the USSR [which was not a victory but simply an internal collapse] ended it. Roads are an example. Communism is the state-ownership of the means of production for the common benefit of the proletariat. Even in the USSR they charged for some products. But roads are communist property which isn't charged for [other than in some instances]. In the USSR they had queues and rationing with everyone not getting enough with huge amounts of waste. Roads are the same. There are constant queues, central planning by Kremlin roading authorities, no charges, waste and frustration. That's life in the Kremlin. One would think that the USA, which claims to be about free trade [hahahaaahah], freedom [giggle] and private property [sigh] would figure it out. The first thing to do with roads is put a gpsOne transponder in each vehicle [which would give me a LOT of money via QUALCOMM], then start billing according to how busy the road is. Peak times would provide a LOT of revenue. Off-peak, the road could be free. Flow rates could be monitored and current prices displayed on vehicle screens. People could see at a glance how much each road is costing at any particular time. Their on-board computer [or remote server perhaps] could direct them along the cheapest route, or fastest, or some combination they select and they could follow a route as directed by the computer. The money would be vast and new roads and control systems could spread around the world [the roading company could develop such systems in other countries]. Traffic would flow freely for the first time in history, on high quality, high speed roads. At the same time, proximity detectors and other electronic/photonic systems would do the actual driving. People are unfit for driving vehicles - reaction times measured in seconds, attention spans barely above Ritalin levels, perceptions in fog, rain, glare reduced to the front of their nose, steering skill like the Exxon Valdez driver. Computers are great for driving cars. They can fly passenger aircraft in 3D, through rain, hail, thunder and lightning and land on a runway with no trouble. Heck, they can put a fighter aircraft down on an aircraft carrier in pitch black. They can drive a car! Road capacity is vastly underused. Ditch the communism and turn technology loose. There are plenty of roads. They are not used properly. Later, Mqurice