Comments on: Getting the Message http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/07/07/getting-the-message/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nancy http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/07/07/getting-the-message/comment-page-1/#comment-10561 Nancy Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:37:04 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=3181#comment-10561 Poor, Randall. Cato, being a libertarian institute, has people who think that it's the consumer choice to go everywhere via car. That's, of course, not true. And a better argument would be that the government hasn't just propped up the car industry in the recent bailouts, and GM takeover - they have propped it up for years, in building roads and bridges to get to these far-flung housing developments. And perhaps if it didn't do that then private industry would be forced to create another way for us to get there (shuttle, trolley car, etc). The documentary "End of Suburbia" discusses how this is the way it was done before people were driving cars. In fact, building more highways and roads simply encourages more sprawl... Poor, Randall. Cato, being a libertarian institute, has people who think that it’s the consumer choice to go everywhere via car. That’s, of course, not true. And a better argument would be that the government hasn’t just propped up the car industry in the recent bailouts, and GM takeover – they have propped it up for years, in building roads and bridges to get to these far-flung housing developments. And perhaps if it didn’t do that then private industry would be forced to create another way for us to get there (shuttle, trolley car, etc). The documentary “End of Suburbia” discusses how this is the way it was done before people were driving cars.

In fact, building more highways and roads simply encourages more sprawl…

]]> By: DJB http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/07/07/getting-the-message/comment-page-1/#comment-10101 DJB Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:00:01 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=3181#comment-10101 While bashing O'Toole and his ilk is certainly satisfying, we shouldn't forget that, despite the breathtaking subsidies that go into driving and suburbia, there are lots of people out there in America, and increasingly globally, who really like both driving and suburbia. People who value compact, walkable communities are a "growing minority" in America (http://www.mi.vt.edu/data/files/hpd%2012(4)/hpd%2012(4)_comment_bailey.pdf) according to research done by Dowell Meyers and Elizabeth Gearin. Luckily, preferences aren't set in stone, but rather, can change with experience and education. While bashing O’Toole and his ilk is certainly satisfying, we shouldn’t forget that, despite the breathtaking subsidies that go into driving and suburbia, there are lots of people out there in America, and increasingly globally, who really like both driving and suburbia.

People who value compact, walkable communities are a “growing minority” in America (http://www.mi.vt.edu/data/files/hpd%2012(4)/hpd%2012(4)_comment_bailey.pdf) according to research done by Dowell Meyers and Elizabeth Gearin.

Luckily, preferences aren’t set in stone, but rather, can change with experience and education.

]]> By: ubrayj02 http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/07/07/getting-the-message/comment-page-1/#comment-10091 ubrayj02 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:47:45 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=3181#comment-10091 Like the goons at the money-losing Weekly Standard, O'Toole only makes me wonder who the hell is paying his bills? What billionaire loon(s) funding O'Toole thinks that automobiles are the marketplace choice, when the state has been deeply involved in practically forcing as many people as possible to drive as much as possible? Like the goons at the money-losing Weekly Standard, O’Toole only makes me wonder who the hell is paying his bills?

What billionaire loon(s) funding O’Toole thinks that automobiles are the marketplace choice, when the state has been deeply involved in practically forcing as many people as possible to drive as much as possible?

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