"Where communities are still being laid out, streets can be narrow, eliminating on-street parking. Olympia plans to build residential streets as skinny as 13 feet in one fast-growing neighborhood - one-third the conventional width and a national record - while Missoula, Eugene and Kirkland have pinched some streets down to 20 or 24 feet."
I'd like to see a fire truck get down a 13 foot wide street--especially when somebody's life or home is at stake. Not to mention that many people LIKE on street parking. This piece seems more interested in eliminating parking for a political agenda than increasing economic efficiency by more properly pricing parking spaces: it completely neglects calculate how much space that the author intends to go to plazas and parks will actually go to creating more parking garages. Not that I'm opposed to efficient pricing of parking spaces; however, this author seems more interested in a political agenda than efficiency. It seems like more of an anti-car apology than an argument for a better world. Yours truly, jsh ===== "...for no one admits that he incurs an obligation to another merely because that other has done him no wrong." -Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy, Discourse 16. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com
