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From: maa@ssc-bee.UUCP (Mark A Allyn)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.legal
Subject: Re: Driving as a right or privilege / "for your own good"
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 15:06:29 EDT
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> system, if you don't have a car you don't have a livelyhood.  I mean
> who in America lives close enough to walk to work, to the supermarket and
> to a department store?  This is something our society really has to address.

I have lived in two small cities (Newport, and Middletown, Rhode Island
for a period of 3 years without owning a car. I used the bus for wherever
it went and used my bicycle to go to places where the bus didn't. 

At the present time, here in Seattle, I commute to work (17 miles EACH way)
by bicycle on most days (by bus on others) and I use the bus and the
bicycle (even here with a good bus system, there are places where busses
do not go) and have been doing this for nearly a year. For those very
infrequent times when I must get somewhere in a hurry, I will either take
a cab or ask a friend of mine to drive me (this happened to me only about
four times within the last year).

I strongly feel that the car is not as necessary as many feel.

on gettin 30 miles per loaf of bread and a bannana and paying no car 
insurance, I am
Mark A. Allyn
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