[Transportation activist and
blogger Chris Smith questions
the Crossing at a
panel discussion on 1/4/07.]
blogger Chris Smith questions
the Crossing at a
panel discussion on 1/4/07.]
Last night at my neighborhood meeting I heard two strange presentations. They both had to do with billion dollar mega-projects that are intended to increase capacity on Interstate 5 and thereby decrease congestion.
As I listened I couldn’t help but feel like I was in some sort of surreal nightmare.
I thought everyone knew that increasing highway capacity only encourages more use of motor vehicles while doing nothing to get to the root cause of the problems.
I thought we’d evolved beyond thinking we can build our way out of our addiction to oil and automobiles. I thought widening freeways and bridges was something planners looked back on in textbooks as what not to do.
