[SDCBC] Fwd: UT Mid City Transit Article Saturday - What does pla nning for growth depend upon?

[Frank Paiano]

> ...depends on [the] belief that planning for growth requires much
> expansion of the mass transit system, probably rail based. It 
> doesn't.

Then exactly what does it depend upon?  Keeping our sick addiction to foreign oil at $whatever-price-the-market-will-bear?  Engaging in the greatest CHEM-101 experiment in recorded history by pumping hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year to see how long it will take to raise the temperature of the oceans by 1 degree Celius?

I'm with Mr. A!  We must bite the bullet some day!  Raise gas prices to $8 per gallon and fund the largest expansion in mass transit in the world.  (It can't cost more than the current Iraq war, that's for sure.)  Make it "inconvenient" for motorists to use their cars in the cavalier manner we use them today.  We are 4% of the world's population and we use 25% of the world's resources.  

"Unsustainable trends can not continue."  -- Steve Watson

Off of Soapbox -- Awaiting counter-invectives.

Respectfully submitted,

Frank Paiano
Ocean Beach



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