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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Highway funding, roadblocks, and the drinking age
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Date: Tue, 26-Jun-84 08:10:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 26 08:10:51 1984
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It seems that Mike Zaleski is against saving lives on the highway.
He says that the "numbers are too small" to make any difference
in raising the drinking age.  Is even one unnecessary death due
to drinking and driving by teenagers To small?  Talk about white noise,
what in the heck does insurance rates going up have to do with
a 20% drop in teenage alcohol related driving deaths?  

By the way, both houses of the New York Leg. have passed the
mandatory seat belt law.  It only remains for the Governor to
sign the bill.  And, yes, the 21 drinking age was defeated the
last time around, BUT, it is back before the leg. again.  Several
key members of the Leg. have indicated that they will now vote
FOR the bill.

And, for your information, the main entrance and exit point for
teenyboppers from Staten Island is the Goethals bridge, not the
Outerbridge crossing.  Check it out.  Not much chance to get
to New York except by bridge or tunnel?  The whole northern border
of New Jersey rests slam bang up against New York.  Ever tried to 
negotiate highway 17 on a summer evening or late at night.  The
carnage on this one is legendary.  

The state has NOT given up the practice of checking for drunk
drivers.  They have just moved the operation down to the Jersey
Shore for the season.  The stopping of cars to check out the
drivers is quite legal in New Jersey.  The reason you don't
hear so much about it is that the media finds it old news now.
If you had been on route 9 last Friday, you could have seen
the operation in action.  It is just too bad they weren't
working highway 35 on Sunday.  They could have prevented the
MURDER of a 14 year old boy who was struck down by a drunk
driver in Eatontown.  The drunk drove up on the sidewalk
to kill the boy.

I won't even comment on the left lane controversey since
the writer obviously did not read the article he was flaming
with any understanding.
T. C. Wheeler