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echo: railroad
to: DON DELLMANN
from: GREGORY PROCTER
date: 1997-09-07 10:05:00
subject: Re: Rail-Fans????

 -=> Quoting Don Dellmann to Gregory Procter <=-
 DD> While tripping merrily through the mail, Gregory Procter was
 DD> overheard
 GP> routes to the surrounding business areas. If it can all change in
 GP> 30 - 40 years from a neccessity to irrelavent, in 20 to 30 years
 GP> it could change again with planning.
 DD>
 DD> This is moving dangerously close to the political (although believe
 DD> me, at least here, the issue of light rail is NOT about transportation,
 DD> it's ALL about politics), but I for one don't EVER want to see the day
 DD> when some "social planner" tells me where I have to live and where I
 DD> have to work.
      Hi Don,
      I have to agree with your first comment re us getting dangerously close 
to
      a political discussion. It is a bit difficult to avoid unless we stick 
to
      Diesel v Steam arguements and even then, we can't mention builders ;-)
      Railways, light or normal has to be political because they effect all 
f
      us. Roads are also political because they are built for all of us 
xcept
      for the bit between your garage and the front gate.
      Life without politicians is called anarchy, it's been tried and has 
proved
      to be most unpopular! The answer is to regularly kick the ones you've 
got!
      I bet you already have planners who tell you where you can build your 
home
      and your nuclear power plant?
      I do prefer talking about trains!
      Greg.P.
  
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