Because you were fed a bill of goods when your cities were designed. At some point we need to take a hard look at our suburbs, they're energy hungry and not population dense enough to be efficient. As we transition from gasoline/diesel cars to whatever comes next higher population density will help us increase energy efficiency. With luck we can do it without transitioning to Soviet era drab. Places like the No. Ho. arts district and San Francisco give me hope.
Anywhere that relies upon buses for mass transit doesn't... -Curt Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:04:07 -0700 From: Alex Chamberlain <[email protected]> To: Mercedes Discussion List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] I cant believe it went this high Message-ID: <CABHyH=ZTRsUEk=9nZGqZcx=65d5fl8u4yoqy7vwc-we7xwd...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Aug 14, 2013 12:40 PM, "Curt Raymond" <[email protected]> wrote: > > So basically you shouldn't be taking > your car into the city, you should park > outside the city and take mass transit > into the city. That's a typical Northeast paradigm, but doesn't work for most cities in the western U.S. Alex _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
