From: MetalBladeSPAMNOMORE@SPAMNOMOREprodigy.net 
  
 You're a mind reader! 
  
 I never took FDR before last week as I am unexperienced, avoid high speeds, 
 most important having taken Metro (subway in the US) all my life I am not 
 too good with roads so I take slower but sure way to Manhattan Bridge via 1, 
 2nd (best, Avenue on which I live in Spanish Harlem!) and 3d avenues. 
  
 So a week ago I thought it's time to explore something I walked up and down 
 for years as a pedestrian, I was terrified.  After LIRR, Belt Parkway, Long 
 Island in throughout in general, Los Angeles, San Diego, etc. this FDR was a 
 rollercoaster "fun", I was near heart-attack.  A few potholes of 
 UNACCEPTABLE size for a highway speed, that can translate into $100's in 
 repair (I avoided at the last moment) doesn't even count, it's the pavement 
 quality below 86th street it deteriorates and becomes some gravel road in 
 certain sections, hard to maintain wheel control 
  
 I will continue avoiding FDR, one time was enough.  West Side Highway/Jackie 
 Robinson? and then Riverside Drive to my part-time work at Columbia 
 University amnd City COllege PHd program is a pleasure, especially in a 
 sunny dry day, park-side atmosphere, German-quality highway.  FDR is a 
 direct opposite, city officials sometimes make me feel owning a car is a 
 crime and we all must have stupid McDonalds jobs and be poor and be ashamed 
 of owning a "guzzler"  My "guzzler" makes upward 40 miles/gallon unladen 
 (with spare, etc. removed), I love subways, I hate polluting air and paying 
 extra for gas/repairs, but my work requires OCCASIONAL driving, the porholes 
 I caught with my eyes last time on FDR are enough to through inexperienced 
 driver out of lane. 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)