[sustran] Big issues to talk about

[A. Karp]

Regarding Dharm's comments on Asian city gridlock as a function of road
development (10% v. New York's 25%):

	I must disagree with the argument that expanding arterials is a
must in order to avoid total havoc.  The 25% figure New York boasts is no
accolade.  To understand the extent to which New York has been ruined by
such overdevelopment, see JOSEPH CARO, THE POWER BROKER: ROBERT MOSES AND
THE FALL OF NEW YORK (1975), a biography of the now-infamous Robert Moses.
Besides being a real moshe kapoyr, Moses single-handedly displaced tens of
thousands of people and laid down tons of community-severing asphalt to
bring about his vision of car dominance.  While sprawling ten-lane
thoroughfares will keep people from parking on the sidewalk, they will
probably cause far more heartache, and heartburn, for those who must live
around them.  It's hard to fault a man who thought himself messianic,
since at the time few had the analytical tools necessary to prove him
wrong.  To endorse such a Moses-like approach for Asia today would be yet
another policy of appeasement vis-a-vis the Car Folk.


Adam



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