Thursday, October 11, 2007

Nixon interstate highway system

The main portion of this exerp that stands out to me is the portion talking about the truck convoys. It seemed a little unnecessary for these trucks to have to travel huge distances in large amounts of time. This causes many problems in businesses and individuals lives. Also the talk about the billions of hours of detours and traffic jams, should be put to an end shows that the vice president has given in depth thought about the problem.

Another bit of evidence that stands out to me is the point about the atomic war. If we were to have to mass evacuate everyone, we would all be stuck in traffic due to the lack of distance we can travel in the small roads we do have to work with. Since the vice president is a regular person too, he may see he problems that could arise in normal peoples lives from the small travel space we had in america.

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