--- "Timothy J. Salo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael Thompson asks:
>
> > ... Did someone slip another justice in on us
> sometime, without
> > letting us know? ...
>
> Apparently, some readers aren't taking
> "transportation justice"
> as seriously as others believe they ought. If they
> don't, upon hearing
> the term, immediately believe in the rightness of
> the cause, the
> correctness of the analysis, and the necessity for
> immediate action,
> they risk being labeled "transportationist". Of
> course, this may
> leave them wondering whether this is closer to being
> an
> environmentalist or a classist.
>
> (Actually, this may be another example of "plays
> well with the
> base", but sounds peculiar [at best] to a broader
> audience.
> I guess it depends on who your intended audience is
> and what your
> objectives are.)
>
> Tim Salo
> Mac-Groveland/Dinkytown
If Michael and Tim don't understand the economic and
social impacts of one's ability to be mobile I guess I
can't help them. But, I will, give you an opposite
perspective on the transportation justice issue if it
makes you feel better. Maybe those of us without cars
are the privileged?
>From Energy and Equity by Ivan Illich
The typical American male devotes more than 1,600
hours a year to his car. He sits in it while it goes
and while it stands idling. He parks it and searches
for it. He earns the money to put down on it and to
meet the monthly installments. He works to pay for
petrol, tolls, insurance, taxes and tickets. He spends
four of his sixteen waking hours on the road or
gathering resources for it. And this figure does not
take account of the time consumed by other activities
dictated by transport: time spent in hospitals,
traffic courts and garages: time spent watching
automobile commercials or attending consumer education
meetings to improve quality of the next buy. The model
American puts in 1,600 hours to get 7,500 miles: less
than five miles an hour.
End quote
Matty Lang,
Wishing I had a vacation home in Dinkytown
Central
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