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    Re: Public transportation (was Re: Age limitations) —Erik Olson
   Hi non-debating Dave, I'm in New York, and I was a transportation junkie. I would enjoy standing on top of the "subway" elevated platform at Woodside in Queens, where it crosses over the Long Island Railroad tracks. One night, there I was, listening (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Public transportation (was Re: Age limitations) —Dave Schuler
   (...) "non-debating"?! You must have me confused with someone else--I nitpick **everything**! 8^) (...) Oh, I don't deny that the vehicles of mass transit are often very cool--I myself love to watch trainyards at work, and I'm not even a train (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Public transportation (was Re: Age limitations) —Frank Filz
     (...) Mass transit can work for day-to-day useage if the places you want to go are convenient to the mass transit lines. In Boston they are. Part of this is that many of the buisiness districts were developed before the car, and therefore are along (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Public transportation (was Re: Age limitations) —Toki Barron
   (...) that--mass. (...) Sheesh! Pittsburgh! Not Pittburgh! :-) I'll at least give you credit for creativity (usually people write Pittsburg, which is how the other Pittsburgs in Kansan, CA, TX and where ever else spell it). Sorry if you were making (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Public transportation (was Re: Age limitations) —Dave Schuler
   (...) D'oh--Sorry, just a mistype! Though I could have spelled it "Picksburgh" and still been using a locally-accepted pronunciation! (...) On second thought, that's what I was doing--I didn't mistype it. 8^) (...) That is 100% correct! I live about (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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