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From: kfk@ccieng2.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Fast Driving
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Date: Fri, 13-Jan-84 13:02:52 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 13 13:02:52 1984
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	From linus!hlh Tue Jan 10 21:34:14 1984
	Subject: Re: Fast driving
	Another point to be made is that soem roads (particularly in the midwest and
	southwest are actually dangerous to drive on at 55 mph.  These roads, long,
	strainght, with two lanes each direction, and with slow-changing scenery can
	be awfully boring to drive on.  They don't have much travel on them and there
	is no reason to have to drive at 55 risking boredom and fatigue.
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Agreed.  Anyone out there ever driven I-80 all the way across Nebraska?
Nebraska is a nice place, but I-80 is lllllloooooonnnnnngggggg and
bbbbbbbooooooorrrrrrriiiiiiinnnnnnnggggggg.  There's a stretch of it on
the western side of the state (nearer Wyoming, that is) that's some 80
miles long where it doesn't have so much as a ripple...80 miles of per-
fectly straight, absolutely dull highway.  I understand it's considered
one of the most dangerous pieces of highway in the country for just that
reason.

Give me the hairpin-turned, narrow highways of the Snowy Range in Wyoming
any day over Nebraska's I-80.  Driving up to the Medicine Bow Ski Area
(about 30 miles west of Laramie, WY) is just awfully entertaining when
the wind is blowing and the snow is blinding you and you know (or thought
you knew) that a hard turn is (was) coming up in about 20 yards...   :-)

Karl Kleinpaste
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