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To: marek_wojna who wrote (20442)	6/28/2002 3:16:44 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Respond to of 74559

Hi Marek, re border checks, it feels good looking back to times of watch towers and barbed wire and then breeze past all those empty, completely useless checkpoints. Remember years ago, driving slowly, hesitatingly over the German-French border like ... "can't be true, where are all those people". And now 49th is turning into an iron curtain. Serves those Canuckistanis right; Re Autobahn in Germany - I remember a mock highway sign "Warning the next 6 miles the federal government is poring concrete over the last 2 square miles of green in the republic". If the highways are arteries to this system, this gorilla is very much alive and gung-ho. Have to watch it every morning and evening - they're expanding the downtown-to-airport highway to six lanes. re getting a ticket - you cant fall asleep in Germany like you can in US driving 65 mph for decades. On Autobahn you may be driving 180 kmh or as much as you can get out of the machine, but once you get off it, you better watch and mind the speed limits. For instance 30 kmh - it's serious and exceedingly costly if not taken seriously. RegZ dj

To: marek_wojna who wrote (20442)	6/28/2002 3:32:55 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi marek, Re: I fall in love with this city mainly because of the transit system. For 100DM I had monthly pass You are making me jealous. In order to steal the public passenger rail system in the U.S., the Bush team is trying to block a $200 Million subsidy so that they can part out the system to their cronies. The terribly shame of this is that they just voted $7 Billion for a useless and unworkable National Missile Defense system that lines the pockets of Cheney's favorite defense contractors. The blatant nonsense in the national priorities of the U.S. is driving me (and apparently a large percentage of the world's population) crazy. How can we be so wrong? -Ray