RE: Update: CSX train derailment

["Tom Walton" <tom () twalton com>]

Routes and rights-of-way and conduits have successfully resisted
virtualization. Highway and rail routes still carry almost all long-haul
fiber.  The bridges are still the only way across the rivers. Poles, heaven
forfend, still work where holes are too expensive.

What did I miss in  '93?


--Tom



> "Rivers and bridges"?

> Either Frank is sensationalizing his comments for the benefit of the
> press, or he's been asleep since '93.

> Seems to me the so-called "choke-points" now are more social and fiscal
> than physical - I doubt rivers and bridges are much of an issue.