"Mike Vandeman" <
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> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:08:40 -0800, "Jeff Strickland" <
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wrote:
>
> . ."Mike Vandeman" <
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> .
news:[email protected]... .> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:18:59 -0800, "Jeff
> Strickland"
<
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> .wrote: .> .> .
> .> . .> .Can you imagine that Mike Vandeman is able to cancel highway projects? .That .> .is
> astounding if you stop to think of the implications of it. Of
course,
> .he .> .got the Sierra Club to actually stop the highway projects, and the
Sierra
> .> .Club has disowned him since then, but it is still astounding that
someone
> .so .> .blatantly ignorant of reality can accomplish this sort of thing. .> .> That simply shows
> how far off you are. By the way, NO mountain bikers .helped .> stop any highway projects. . .Maybe
> because mountain bikers are the people sitting in gridlock because .there hasn't been a new
> highway built in this state for as long as
anybody
> .can remember.
>
> Yeah, they all drive cars to get their bike to the trailhead. Hypocrites.
>
Or they drive cars to get to their JOBS.
> .I think there is a middle ground to look at when highway construction and .habitat collide. I
> think we can, and should, look at building highways
from
> .the housing centers to the job centers that go for tens of miles without .exit ramps. I think we
> can, and should, build highways that are raised
over
> .small canyons and gullies instead of filling in these dips in the
landscape
> .so the highway can be flat.
>
> We don't need one square inch of more pavement. Idiot.
>
Yeah, right. Idiot.
> .It makes perfect sense to me that when we build new housing centers that
are
> .removed from the jobs by 50 or 60 miles, then we need transportation .infrastructure to carry the
> residents of these centers back and forth to .work.
>
> We shouldn't be building sprawl. Period. Idiot.
What else would you build then?
You have zillions of complaints, but not one single solution except to exterminate the human race.