>> But does the "Comprehensive" Plan address this: >> "The ultimate price of oil addiction".
> Yes, I think it does try to address your concern. Please tell me how the CP is going to do all those good things. It's not going to improve air quality, that's for sure. It's not going to reduce motor vehicle driving. It won't do anything to reduce aggregate greenhouse gas emissions from the Madison area. The city just approved a $12 million parking ramp for State Street and the University is expanding its parking capacity as well, the last I heard, or maybe that's already been done?. That's shows me it's not at all interested in trying to shift gears away from single occupancy driving to and in Madison. The bus system may have been saved by some very astute actions of a few conscientious alders and a handful of civic minded citizens, for 2006. What about the next 5 years? The city plans massive expenditures on more highway and street development when it can barely keep up the maintenance on the cement it has already poured. The plan contains no commitments from any of the surrounding municipalities and townships to provide opportunities for their residents to use mass transit service in getting to and traveling about Madison. The plan is little more than a list of empty promises, if even that. If you think I'm wrong, please show me why. All I see in the CP is more of the same kind of talk that has been going on in Madison and Dane County for 25 years. All talk and no action. Things have gone down hill fast in Dane County and Madison in terms of environmental quality and they threaten to get much worse in the future. We need the government to make drastic changes and take bold actions, just maintain the status quo. We're still headed in the wrong direction. Mike Neuman "Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin -------------------------------------------------------- >From the Comp. Plan: --------------------------- TRANSPORTATION OVERVIEW The purpose of the Transportation chapter is to guide transportation decisions in the City of Madison and the larger metropolitan area. This chapter updates, revises and refines the goals, objectives, policies and recommendations of various adopted City and regional plans. SUMMARY OF TRANSPORTATION ISSUES The transportation system should be designed and maintained in a manner that: . improves air quality; . increases the use of public transit, bicycling, walking and carpooling, as alternatives to single-occupancy vehicles; . improves access and circulation within the existing capacity of the street system (with consideration for all modes of transportation); . improves pedestrian and bicycle mobility and accessibility throughout the City; . provides strong transportation linkages to inter-city modes of transportation, such as air and inter-city passenger rail transportation; . supports existing and new development in accordance with the policies of the (Land Use chapter of the Comprehensive Plan) by emphasizing the importance of developing housing and attracting key businesses that will benefit each area of the City; . creates transportation infrastructure and promotes land use patterns that encourage the sustainable use of resources (and reduce demands on natural resources); . minimizes the negative impacts of transportation on existing and future neighborhoods; and; . minimizes the demand for automobile parking, without negatively impacting development opportunities (i.e., manage long- and short-term parking demand and provide incentives to encourage the use of alternative transportation modes). _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
