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From: paul@dual.UUCP (Baker)
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Subject: Re: Driving as a right or privilege / "for your own good"
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Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 12:25:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 15 12:25:31 1985
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> Do you want to take taxis to work for a year because you forgot
> to pay a couple of speeding tickets and didn't want to waste
> a few days in court?  (I cynically note that they make it very
> easy to just pay them and very hard to challenge the cop in court,
> e.g. you have to show up in person to schedule the court date and then
> you have to show up and spend the day waiting until they call your 
> case.  Of course it's for THEIR convenience; they hold a monopoly.)

If you are incapable of reading reading posted speed limits and keeping
to them, perhaps you shouldn't be allowed on the road.  This doesn't
seem to me to be a particularly difficult skill to master, if you can't
see speed postings, you probably can't see cyclists either.  If you are
also not willing to pay the fine or go to court, I am not surprised
that you might have your licence revoked.

In the more enlightened areas of this country, public transit other
than taxis does exist.  Even LA has buses!!  If there is no public
transit where you live or work, then complain about THAT to your
congressman.

Paul Wilcox-Baker.