At 8:18 AM -0600 1/22/03, Robbie Webber wrote: >This quote appeared in Mike Ivey's column in the Cap Times yesterday. > >"Imagine how upset people are going to get sitting in their cars, wasting >gas, waiting for a half-empty train to cross the road," he said. >***************
As Tim noted, the State Journal also is trying to scare people with this idea. I wonder if either Mr. Roach or the State Journal editorial board are considering the impact of another 100,000 dane county residents on the frustration level of commuters. The North Mendota Parkway committee (see http://www.danenet.org/bcp/northbelt.html for background). are planning on another 50,000 people moving into the study area over the next 10 to 50 years. And most of them will probably be traveling into Madison on a daily basis. Thats just for the area North of Lake Mendota. The full build-out for Madison's East-side plan and West-side plan will probably add yet another 50,000 residents. As noted in previous posts, over 90% of the motor vehicles in our are are SOV (single occupant vehicles). Following current trends, that means 10s of thousands of more vehicles on city streets in the coming decades. Do you think that will impact travel times? Of course, we could always expand our city streets. What would be the impact of that? Right now Madison is working on rebuilding East Washington Avenue. That project will take about 10 years. That means that there will be construction delays for 10 years. Strange, I haven't head anyone bitching about that. Oh by the way, that project will consume most of the transportation money in the city for about 10 years. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Darin Burleigh |><|\/|/\|-o [EMAIL PROTECTED] |<>|/\|\/|-o _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
