At 10:17 AM 01/11/2003 -0800, Scott Rose wrote: >This 10 January article in the NYTimes-- online at >http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/10/international/asia/10SHAN.html >(registration required to view)-- describes a student rally at a Chinese >university protesting unsafe conditions at an intersection [snip] >this one ended more happily with an immediate start to >construction of a long-sought pedestrian overpass that >civic officials had resisted as being too expensive.
I'm glad to know that this demonstration ended more happily than the one in Tiananmen Square in 1989, but it is sad to see that the proposals to accomodate pedestrians, even in China, must not involve impeding motor vehicle traffic (even trafic that violates the laws intended to regulate it, since the article stated that the truck driver that killed 2 and put a third into a coma ran a red light). No matter what the US does abroad, the example we have been setting at home is surely not making the world a better place. _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
