imho Smooth, safe roads are beautiful.  Injury and death are ugly.

--
Mark Szymanski

Quoting Gary Greenberg <garymg@xxxxxxxxx>:

>  On 2/13/07, warmhearth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <warmhearth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Keep Wacahoota the way it is!  If you improve it more cars will come....A
> > few bike signs and lowered speed limits could help though.
> >
> That's probably the most sensible Overall recommendation I've read to date
> on this subject.
> Road improvement and increased traffic is a well known city planning outcome
> -- Anthony Downs
> has been writing about it for decades. Adding lanes does NOT decrease
> congestion over time, it simply provides for further development. And, IMO,
> that's just what we don't need in this gorgeous
> section of the county.
> Southern Alachua and Northwestern Marion County are, imho, two of the most
> beautiful places in
> the state. We ought to work to keep it that way.
>
> As to the original editorial published in the paper, my first thought was
> that if the driver has a hard time sharing the road safely with trucks,
> buses, bicycles, et al, they probably don't belong behind the wheel but
> that's another problem in itself.
>
> Gary
>
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> >
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