The words are there, but under the current and long-established history of choosing people to serve on the boards and commissions who review and approve plans, and with the apparent lack of enthusiasm among elected officials for a system of clean, electric urban/regional rail, the air quality goal has not been met and will not be met.
The selected reviewing bodies habitually approve excessive parking for lease to commuters who continue to flood the near-East and near-West sides. (E.g. - the ugly parking structure stuck to Metropolitan Place like a fatal cancerous growth, with its "Parking Available" billboard.) The means of implementing the plan need to change we are going to realize any vision of a clean-air city in our lifetimes. The tan-green ring of smog that hangs over the Four Lakes basin on calm-air mornings is noticeably darkening and threatening to return to the condition of the 1970's. The City needs to take a much more forceful role regionally to achieve a clean air future. The County's "Clean Air Action Days" approach to air quality problems is pathetic, and ineffectual at addressing this multi-faceted problem. Jeff Schimpff Bureau of Science Services Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources "Bus, Bike, Walk or Carpool to Work for Clean Air for Kids" (*) phone: (608) 267- 7853 (*) fax: (608) 267-5231 (*) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Logan Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 6:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Bikies] Re: 11/22 PBMVC Adenda Heads Up > But does the "Comprehensive" Plan address this: > "The ultimate price of oil addiction". Yes, I think it does try to address your concern. >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 _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
