One of the reasons it was so dismaying when Franklin's mayor submitted a "stimulus wish list" with NO outside input (with the ill-advised Drexel interchange at the top of the list).
We will have to be expensively REACTIVE in the years ahead, I fear.
"There's this cycle of automobile dependency," he said. "You have to have a place to park at home, a place to park at work, and a place to park at retail establishments." In an absurd "market distortion," cities have become places where "cars have a right to housing and people don't."
It's Time for Cities to Favor People, Not Cars | Autopia from Wired.com:
Interesting read:
http://www.oaklandstreets.com/2009/02/walk-it-out.html
Posted by: JCG | February 23, 2009 at 11:32 PM