<html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> I would like to weigh in on this one, with what may to some of you look like nothing more than a “personal religious prejudice” about matters of transport policy and practice that I have consistently courted for my entire career.  Which has consistently biased me against not only off-street parking but also putting money into underground rail.   The nice thing about on street parking and all that visible traffic, congestion, etc. is that you cannot avoid seeing it. It is the nature of man that if we can avoid coming to grips with a problem, no matter how grave, because it is hidden, we will. So let’s keep our problems right in front of our noses – as a constant reminder that we better do something about them.   BTW, I am a bit surprised that my proposal for annual open citizen mini-surveys of transport priorities in their cities has occasioned such a deafening silence. Hmm. And I thought it was/is a real great and useful idea. Hmm.     </div> </body> </html>