At 05:41 PM 5/13/2006, Michael D. Barrett wrote:
[snip]
And don't anyone tell me about how they were lucky to have thousand
year-old horse-cart cities. Many of those cities were flattened in
Dubya-Dubya Two. They had essentially a blank slate and could have gone
all car if they'd wanted to. Luckily they were far-sighted enough to keep
some level of humanity designed in. [snip]
Besides, we had plenty of cities in the US that predated the automobile,
too, But after using all of the country's pasenger rail capcaity during
Dubya-Dubya Two to help us win that war, the country made a decision to let
all of that infrastructure disintegrate. Instead of spending public money
to refurbish stations, tracks, and trains that had quite literally been
ridden hard and put away wet all during the war, we let them die. All
because we decided it would be better to spend 5x as much money to
accommodate cars as we would spend to accommodate pedestrians, bicyclists,
and trains and boats (carrying people and freight).
Think about it. A city doesn't have to be a 1000 years old to have been
built at a human scale. It only has to be a hundred years old, or, really,
only old enough to predate the decision by all levels of government to
discontinue public investment in streets for people in favor of streets for
people in cars, which, not so coincidentally, was made at the end of the
war that was fought with the heads of America's auto manufacturers in
cabinet level positions like Secretary of Defense and Transportation.
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