I'm not judging until we actually see the meat of the proposals.
But I will say this: This stuff is all about politics. Obama can't just swoosh his pen and stop spending money on roads, he has to convince Americans that changing policies is necessary. If he fails to do the convincing, then whatever changes he forces through will be temporary, ripe for undoing by the next president.
If we want a permanent paradigm shift, groundwork must be laid.
While I admit the possibility that Obama will disappoint, I haven't yet seen anything that I would characterize as irresponsible. Obama has to be popular if he’s going to enact serious change. To remain popular he has to put things in a way people can understand.
I agree. My point was really that this is the start of the paradigm shift, just the beginning, not the end point. We can't take things for granted. And we have to keep pushing.
Hopefully the new administration will support the Conference of Mayors who just recently came up with several proposals for a recovery plan for cities. Many of those proposals also included transportation. I know there is not a lot of money to go around these days but hopefully under the guise of providing more jobs, major transporation initiatives can go through and actually be completed.
>this is the start of the paradigm shift, just the beginning, not the end point. We can't take things for granted. And we have to keep pushing.
Fair enough. Agreed.
..great photo of the freeway construction. What a crime that was.
Structures dating back to the beginning of the city were demolished for this atrocity to be built.
Maybe now (I don't eat there very often any more) but definitely in the past, the Korean style buffet restaurant on the 600 block of Pennsylvania SE, Sizzling Express, had photos up of some of the now demolished buildings, from the Kiplinger Photo Collection, which now might be at the Historical Society.
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