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[Fred Schneider]

That was a book that took more than a few minutes to read ... not the  
comic book that they serve up today!

The real joke is the exam for a commercial drivers license.   I took  
that exam within the last ten years to keep my CDL ... back when  
Washington decreed that all states should have a standard A, B, C  
system.   What shattered my confidence was when the examiner  
announced, "If you are unable to read, raise your hand and we'll take  
you into another room and you make take the exam orally."   And I'm  
thinking, golly, gee, whiz ... You can't read the sign that says  
"Bridge weight restriction 10,000 lbs" or "No hazmats" but they'll  
give you license?   Wow.   (No, I'm not kidding.   It's all true.)

Amazing what equal rights does to us ...

(Let's see what kind of a fire storm I stirred up this time.....)

fws

On May 13, 2006, at 7:50 PM, Bob Rathke wrote:

> I remember the old law from the Pa. driver's exam book in the 1950's.
>
> Bob 5/13/06
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 6:39 PM
> Subject: [PRCo]
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>
>> From Peter Folger's news items:   the state of Pennsylvania finally
>> woke up to the fact that we still have streetcars and that they
>> deleted a law five or ten years ago that made sense.   Now they
>> restored the law.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Harrisburg - excerpted from PRNewswire of May 11, 2006.
>>
>> "Governor Edward G. Rendell today signed the following bills into
>> law: House Bill 121,
>>
>> "Additionally, the bill provides that a vehicle may not pass a  
>> streetcar
>> on the left when the streetcar is moving in the same direction. Nor
>> may a
>> vehicle pass a streetcar that has stopped to receive or discharge
>> passengers on the side on which the passengers enter and the exit the
>> streetcar until the doors are closed and any discharged passengers  
>> have
>> moved to the side of the highway. This provision is not applicable to
>> locations where streetcars are operating on tracks located within a
>> median
>> section of the roadway separated from the roadway by curbs or other
>> physical barriers."
>>
>>
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