[geeks] electric cars

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2006/10/24 Tue AM 09:59:07 CDT
>To: geeks at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [geeks] electric cars

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>One of the latest pork projects is the I81 route through the mountains
>of Virginia.  We desperately need new rail lines there, but there is a
>huge contract to build an 8-lane superhighway through there.  It would
>be incredibly ugly, noisy, and ruin a lot of scenery because of the
>generally stupid way we build highways.
>
>Meanwhile, a couple of rail lines is well known to carry about ten
>times as much freight, which is the stated purpose of the 8-lane
>highway.

8 lanes of freight would be impressive "bandwidth" for freight, and would be hard to beat with rail service, even if it was 4 lanes in and 4 lanes out - 4 semi's wide and front to back is a lot of freight...

Lionel