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[rinue]

It occurs to me that most urban sprawl would be eradicated by dramatically lower highway speed limits. Unfortunately, this will never happen.

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[spherissa.livejournal.com]

then we'd just climb up into the skies and the birds would keep crahsing into our so polished windows and we'd need speed limits for our elvators and the gliders we'd use to leap from one room to the next

[and-ham.livejournal.com]

The advancement of video conferencing and telecommuting (I think that's the latest buzz word) will alter these assumptions a bit, though.

[rinue.livejournal.com]

Not really. Lower speed limits would practically be a small business subsidy. I'll explain that in detail if you want, bringing my full economist persona to bear, but I'm pretty sure you can work it out on your own, being a damned bright guy. (You rock.) And my experience of telecommuting is that it tends to futher isolate people in the suburbs, give them less of a chance to stumble upon non-franchizes.

-Romie