Michael J. writes, in part:
"The "Critical Parking" program is outdated, anti-urban, and unreasonable."
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I agree. Our urban infrastructure and most of the questions we are asking about our urban infrastructure are also outdated, anti-urban, and unreasonable.
Michael J. also writes, in part:
"I propose the creation of a city or metro-wide parking authority to look comprehensively at parking, transit, and the built environment."
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Perhaps the Mayor, the Met Council, and our City Council members will take a little time to explore the links below prior to such a comprehensive analysis.
At present, we are enough removed from the consequences of our urban infrastructure that we live in comfortable denial. We do not ask what fundamental change our transportation system needs. Instead, we proceed on the basis of obsolete premises.
The key premise is this: our urban, auto-based infrastructure is benign, inevitable and unchangeable. We do not understand that our transportation infrastructure is very destructive to our environment on many levels. We do not understand that our urban infrastructure demands war to sustain it.
Please consider these resources before concluding that this is not "Minneapolis specific."
http://www.energybulletin.net/3553.html -- article by Michael T. Klare, professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College, is author of "Resource Wars: the New Landscape of Global Conflict" and "Blood and Oil: the Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency."
http://www.communitysolution.org/ -- this site is about creating peaceful, sustainable change at the local level starting now . rich with pages of essential information.
Our political system is part of the problem. We can only change the political system by beginning to change ourselves. Local community-based change: global implications.
Energy crunch, geopolitical clash, environmental crash, economic implosion: Minneapolis will not be insulated from these consequences by military might and media bubble forever. Fundamentalist religion combined with nationalism and rapacious consumption is a toxic drug. Where will we be at the end of the trip? Will our kids have a future after our binge?
-- pedaling for peace and eco-justice from Kingfield - Gary Hoover
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