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From: pjdr@cgdisis.cgd.ucar.edu (Peter Rayner)
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Subject: Re: ADA
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Date: 5 Jun 90 04:24:39 GMT
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Index Number: 8652

In article <12168@bunker.UUCP> Joe.Chamberlain@f140.n150.z1.fidonet.org writes:
>Index Number: 8597
>        In reality, SEPTA, the Philadelphia mass transit system
>will collaspe under the financial strain imposed by the bill.  It
>is already in bad trouble.  Same goes for the systems in NYC,
>Boston, and many other cities.
>        When this starts to happen, then watch the backlash
>against the disabled.
This is blatant nonsense or, should I say, I have a slight disagreement.
The explanation of the logical fault in the above argument is, as usual,
contained in the text itself.  The key sentence is "it is already in bad
trouble". 
The truth is rather boring.  These systems may well collapse, in fact it is
even possible that, to drag out another cliche, the costs resulting from
compliance with the bill will be the straw that breaks ...  However the
reaction of most people in that case is not to blame the straw.  I think
there has been enough debate about the real issues which make the 
economics of mass transit so marginal in this country so that such a red
herring is, fortunately, unlikely to be seized upon.
>                                -=joe=-
>
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Peter Rayner
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