The population has just about doubled in the US since the national
highway system was built. And like you said, it was designed for
defense purposes, not for emptying out million plus cities in a few
hours.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Sep 23, 2005, at 12:06 PM, Rob Harrison wrote:
> On 9/23/05 9:36 AM, "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>> Why in the hell weren't the interstate highways in Houston made
>> one-way out of
>> town by dawn yesterday?
>>
>
> I've been thinking about this highway thing, after seeing all the
> images of
> car-choked freeways, clogged partly by cars that have run out of gas.
> Weren't these Federal highways supposed to be emergency paths for
> movement
> of troops and so on? They're not working very well. I wonder if
> we'd, for
> example, made those highways a couple lanes narrower and invested
> in mass
> transit--light or heavy rail--along with those highways, how much
> easier it
> would have been to get people out of the danger areas. Of course, they
> couldn't have brought as much stuff with them....
>
> Rob in Seattle, a city currently building light rail, finally....
>
>
>
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