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From: mazlack@ucbernie.BERKELEY.EDU (Lawrence J. &)
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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 15:49:47 EDT
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In article <1151@dual.UUCP> paul@dual.UUCP (Baker) writes:
>
>> 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.

I think that the reply by Wilcox-Baker is a somewhat overly moralistic in
tone.  Maybe in a past life, he was a Puritan specializing in witch burnings.
(p.s. I ride both bikes and cars)
  ....Larry Mazlack