>Ken:
>
>You were pessimistic that day.  Let's take the auto issues.  Sure it
>looks like them big ole megga malls sterilze the soil and are somehow
>more for the auto than they are for the human...but I travel by car, I
>like my car and I don't want to go somehwere where my car is not
>welcome.  There's a whole lot of guys like me out there and we sometimes
>get what we ask for.  And that is called democracy.
>
>The fact that we have yet to make the mega mall a thing of beauty and
>humanity and warmth and community is another problem.

Ken was not pessimistic.  He was holistic.  Your last point is certainly
valid.  So is the first point, up to a point: autos are here to stay in
America.  We have to deal with them.  Part of the problem we have in this
country is that we perform transportation planning in service to the
automobile.  We would do better to perform transportation planning in
service to the community.  There is a big difference.

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Raleigh Historic                                       from some flounder?"
Districts Commission                               - Bullwinkle J. Moose

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