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Subject: IP: COMM CENTER PARKING: DESIGNED TO PREVENT TERRORISM?: Telecommunications Review - May 15, 2001

From: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 17:11:17 -0400


>COMM CENTER PARKING:  DESIGNED TO PREVENT TERRORISM?
>
>San Francisco Chronicle columnists Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross today
>had a laugh at the expense of San Francisco's Emergency Communications
>Department for its innovative bid to have the Board of Supervisors set
>aside 20 additional employee parking spaces in front of the 9-1-1
>center.  The Department told the Board that the cars parked in the
>spaces would add an additional layer of protection from a terrorist
>attack or bombing, prompting one supervisor to remark, "Talk about limp
>and lame."
>(San Francisco Chronicle)
>
>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/05/13/MN215914.DTL



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