On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 09:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > in heavily-trafficed areas the right to put limits on the amount of traffic > and pollution they are willing to tolerate in their neighborhood.
Better yet, why not just have a 'use fee' via gas taxes. Therefore, people with the least efficient and most detrimental habits get taxed equally throughout the state and not just in Minneapolis. I'm not convinced the local public health benefits of such an economic backpressure are worth keeping to one area. Of course, increasing the gas tax to help fund specific multi-modal transit programs and road construction costs might have the same effect. [hah, not.] Also, home and property values really do reflect the 'quality of living' that some people experience. Its a icky fact of the way things get priced out. Not in my [front,back]yard effects are really at work here, I fear. [Note: I live 50 feet or so away from highway 10 in coon rapids. No privacy wall, just some trees and some privacy fencing, this stuff was built after the road went through. And before anyone goes "but thats out in the outer 'burbs, theres no traffic out there..." yes, there is. The 3->2 lane narrowing is just near here. Traffic regularly gets backed up at rush hour.] -- Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ringworld.org/ coon rapids, home umn, east bank, work daily bus rider _______________________________________ 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
