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To: combjelly who wrote (374812)	3/23/2008 3:04:17 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1577191

Whenever I visit my relatives in Austin, which (I think) is one of the nicer places in Texas, I tell them the only thing WRONG with Austin is that you have to drive halfway across the rest of Texas to get to it no matter where you're coming from, and it's the same when you leave.

To: combjelly who wrote (374812)	3/23/2008 3:38:23 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577191

"It was a different time......people were not wired to the clock and did not have a need for speed." Maybe not in California. But the interstate system made it possible to travel around Texas in less than days. Even so, Houston to El Paso is going to eat a big chunk out of a day and probably should be two. Texas has some population centers separated by large tracts of open land. Being able to travel from one place to another without slowing to 35 and stopping at the lights and stop signs of every tiny town makes a huge difference. I don't know about CA......I didn't grow up there. By the time I was growing up, we used the freeways a lot but I don't know what was the situation in the 1950s......except what I read. "It was a president of GM who once said that "What's good for GM is good for America"." That isn't what Engine Charley said. What he actually said was "because for years I thought what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa.". And that is different. Now, don't get me wrong. Charley was some piece of work. He championed the idea that the US needed a permanent war economy, for example. That's exactly the kind of paradigm that would want to replace streetcars with freeways.