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Changing Travel Demands: Implications for Planning | Planetizen
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The antigovernment campaign has always been phrased in terms of opposition to waste and fraud — to checks sent to welfare queens driving Cadillacs, to vast armies of bureaucrats uselessly pushing paper around. But those were myths, of course; there was never remotely as much waste and fraud as the right claimed. And now that the campaign has reached fruition, we’re seeing what was actually in the firing line: services that everyone except the very rich need, services that government must provide or nobody will, like lighted streets, drivable roads and decent schooling for the public as a whole.
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Both in the past and today, the separation commonly made, dividing city commerce and industry from rural agriculture, is artificial and imaginary. The two do not come down through two lines of descent. Rural work — whether that work is manufacturing brassieres or growing food — is city work transplanted.
— Jane Jacobs quoted in The history of urban agriculture should inspire its future | Feeding the City | Grist
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A Republican Senator Thinks the Gas Tax Should Be Raised, and You Should Too » INFRASTRUCTURIST
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[O]utside of sub-Saharan Africa and the Australian outback, I don’t think you can go off the grid in any meaningful way. All your consumer goods, your roads, your culture, the books and websites you consult to tell you how to get off the grid, are brought to you by the grid.
— Is It Possible to Go Truly ‘Off the Grid’? A Guest Post » INFRASTRUCTURIST
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China to build ginormous buses that cars can drive under video Compukoko com (via ALASMAR22)
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Congestion is Communist →
“[T]his is the heart of the issue. Why were old Soviet citizens forced to queue for hours? Because the government wasn’t using market prices to allocate scarce resources. And why are Russians doomed to interminable congestion today? Exactly the same reason.”
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Transportation needs beyond car ownership →
Ray Suarez and guest panelists Geoff Anderson, Joshua Schank and Deron Lovas discuss the fact that the transportation system revolves around private cars, but people need more alternatives.
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via www.dispatch.com
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