Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 00:20:48 -0400 From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com> To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: But Will They Run On Time ? Michael Walsh wrote: > >kfl at keithlynch.net 06/13/02 09:43PM > >>"Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> wrote: > >> This one's for Keith "I don't need no stinkin' car" Lynch: > >> http://www.sunspot.net/news/traffic/bal- > >md.trains13jun13.story?coll=bal%2=Dlocal%2Dheadlines > > > >Thanks. Please note, however, that I am far from the only WSFA member > >who has no car. > > FWIW, when I saw the article I immediately thought of you . . . > > No doubt there are other car free WSFAns, but you are the most . . . = > prominent? > > But as someonewho does take MARC into DC and Metros about I think it would = > be a great idea to have an integrated sysyem. I recall - perhaps it's an = > urban legend, or just a strange memory - that at one point in the dim dark = > days of yesteryore there were plans to have the DC Metro and the = > Baltimore subway system meet up at a station where you could transfer . I believe originally an effort was made to make both systems fully compatible, for the event that they might some day link up. --Ted White