New subject: USA Today article on drive alone commute

31 May 2002

A strange response, unless you believe oil dependence, autombile emissions,
excess land consumption, farmland loss, and habitat fragmentation are not
important issues.  If human convenience is more important than those issues
(or if I'm just imagining that those are sprawl-related issues), then sprawl
is a good thing.
-----Original Message-----
From: Putta, Viplava [mailto:vputta@incog.org]
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 9:15 AM
To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net
Subject: RE: [CTPP] USA Today article on drive alone commute

Sometimes what we intend to say looks way different in print (from the same
USA Today article).  But it brings a paradox to the front about sprawl:

"As development spreads out across the region, the density of travel along a
particular route downtown decreases and the opportunities for ride-sharing
go down," said Dougherty, who works on transportation issues in the
Philadelphia region. "That's another problem of suburban sprawl."

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Since when carpooling became a solution for sprawl?  If congestion (density
of travel) went down, is that a problem?  And if sprawl is responsible for
alleviating that problem then that must be a good thing!!

My 2 cents.

Viplav Putta
INCOG