From: "Robert MacIntosh" <macbuccfo at msn.com>
To: WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Before the Beltway (was Re: Meeting place)
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:45:56 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

All right, so I exagerated. Population around here in the 60's was only
about only about 1.5 million. Now, both Fairfax and Montgomery exceed a
million, with PG County not that far behind. That means the metro area is
nearing 5 million. And I understand that the bus companies drove the
trolleys out of business before Kennedy was President. Convinced everyone
that buses were more flexibile and all. Then came transit strikes and higher
fuel costs, etc. The bus companies all failed until only the publically
backed lines we currently have came into being. And a transit strike now
would have an impact on the area. I recall one in the 90's that gridlocked
the entire area for the couple of days it took to settle. Fortunately, I was
out of town during that time, but everyone who experianced muttered
something about a living hell....

Bob MacIntosh

>From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
>Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
>To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
>Subject: [WSFA] Before the Beltway (was Re: Meeting place)
>Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:39:42 -0500 (EST)
>
>"Robert MacIntosh" <macbuccfo at msn.com> wrote:
> > Additionally, in the 60's there weren't a tenth of the population of
> > metro Washington (or Balt-Wash if you choose) there is now.
>
>Are you sure?  I know the population has increased, but I find it hard
>to believe it has increased that much.
>
> > And public transportation was non-existent if the buses weren't
> > going where you needed to go.
>
>Are you forgetting the trolleys?
>
>I recall reading the minutes of an early WSFA meeting that failed to
>get a quorum due to a transit strike.
>
>It would be a sad day indeed if the current situation caused WSFA to
>relocate to somewhere that makes it a motorist-only club.  As best
>as I can determine, the club has *never* met somewhere inaccessible
>to transit, except once, in July of this year.  And we didn't get a
>quorum then, either.
>