A similar situation happened with the wedge co-op. With their expansion came the leveling of two houses. During peak hours the main parking lot is full and seems to be already obsolete. Obviously, I want the Wedge to do well, but what I have been thinking about recently is when green principles conflict with one another. More green business, more cars.....a higher consciousness, higher pollution. We car pool to the wedge weekly, but this wouldn't work for unexpected trips to the hardware store. I wish the neighborhood could find another way to solve this instead of knocking down more homes and encouraging people to drive.
I wonder where we would draw the line with the car. I think it's just habit for people to jump in the car and go, we know no other way. To me Paris seemed like a car city, but Amsterdam did not, what's the difference? If I'm correct Amsterdam is smaller and the canals limit how it could be redesigned/ expand, but my point is the citizens of Amsterdam seem no less happy or prosperous than people in any other car dominate city. There seems to be the thought today that if there isn't the correct blood sacrifice, the car and stadium gods will not be happy and they will abandon us. What seems to trouble me is that someone could live in a house for a long time or a house could be in a family for generations and this means nothing. In my holistic view of the world, which includes Mpls. for which I expand on my concepts, the general disregard of life and people will have a sustained negative effect, but receives scant debate. I'm back to where I was when I first happened across this list. It seems we will all accommodate to the car, at the expense of everything else. But a healthy debate on these complex issues is a start in the right direction. Good Luck. Robert Yorga St. Anthony West and Car Freedom _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
