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Article: OPINION: If we're gonna keep on truckin', let's slow down.
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- The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2006
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Byline: Elizabeth Strother
Nov. 8--Now that the congressional midterm election is over and we have put all vitriol aside and are united as a nation once again, heh heh, let's talk highway safety.
Here is an issue all Virginians can get behind 100 percent. We want to feel safe driving the interstates, and in Southwest Virginia, we want in particular to feel safe driving Interstate 81.
We don't -- feel safe, that is; at least, we often do not.
We'd like to thin out the big rigs by piggy-backing more of them on rail cars, though we're worried that while this sounds appealing on a macro level, on the micro level -- specifically, between a ...