"Take Action! Stop 'Steamrolling' New Highways Through Local Communities" From: Environmental Defense.org
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/local_transit?rk=m7a5AG51EcJQW : "As the highway industry prepares to spend billions of your tax dollars on road projects around the country, they and their allies in Washington, D.C. are trying to reduce opportunities for input from local residents so they can steamroll more harmful road projects through federal reviews." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Take Back Your Streets: How to Protect Communities from Asphalt and Traffic" Revised: January 1998 From: Conservation Law Foundation http://www.clf.org/pubs/street1.htm : "...Whether a community is urban or rural, rich or poor, the explanation is more or less the same. A street or road that local people are accustomed to is said to be deficient. It does not conform to "modern" standards. It's not wide enough, and has curves or other features that are different from what Interstate-era engineering handbooks prescribe. Traffic has grown, and is predicted to keep growing. Unless something is done, motorists will experience delays that the highway department considers excessive. Plans have already been drawn up... While the drawings don't say it in so many words, anyone taking more than a casual look can see that the road will have faster-moving traffic. The highway department informs conservation commissions and historic preservation offices that its purpose is to provide a "safe and efficient transportation facility." This is important business, is the message, and you must, of course, let us get on with it. A sense of inevitability takes hold. Although most people unwittingly join the highway department in referring to the proposed project as a "road improvement," many local people see anything but "improvement" in the works...." *** "Highway Capacity" -- is defined as the "maximum hourly rate at which persons or vehicles can reasonably be expected to traverse a point or uniform section of a lane or roadway during a given time period under prevailing roadway, traffic, and control conditions." (Transportation Research Board, Highway Capacity Manual, p. 1-3 (1985).) ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
