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From: ewa@gatech.CSNET (Eric Allender)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle,net.politics
Subject: Re: who uses the road
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Date: Sun, 9-Jun-85 13:34:51 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  9 13:34:51 1985
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From postnews Sun Jun  9 13:33:23 1985
> 
> There's plenty of evidence in the newspapers of the period, not to
> mention old people's memories.  When motor-cars were introduced, they
> were indeed considered dangerous, and many people felt that they should
> be banned from public roads.  And every time somebody had a motor
> accident, that feeling grew.
> 
> It was many years before people came to feel that roads are mainly
> for cars.  I do not blame anybody for questioning that attitude!
> -- 
> Col. G. L. Sicherman
> ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel

A tangential interjection:
   I remember hearing some old-timers talking in my home town in Iowa.  They
were remembering that they were really happy when kids started driving cars,
because if they were driving cars then they wouldn't be getting themselves
hurt racing their horses. (!)

Eric Allender
School of Information & Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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