Skylune
October 19th 07, 10:47 PM
On Oct 13, 4:33 pm, C J Campbell >
wrote:
> Vast numbers of automobiles with 2 or 3 or more cars per household;
> long commutes of single drivers; horrible freeway congestion; urban
> sprawl; loss of farmland and wilderness resources; the decay of cities
> and the takeover of large areas of our cities by lawless gangs; obesity
> caused by everyone eating at fast food joints; dependence on foreign
> oil; global warming; pollution; filth, crud, corruption; hundreds of
> thousands dead in traffic accidents; the closure of local airports
> because of expanding city growth:
>
> All of these problems can be traced to the rise of the superhighway. We
> built it, and everybody moved out of town in an ever-increasing spiral
> of flight to a chimera of utopian suburbia. The only people left in the
> cities were a few of the very rich who understood city life and a lot
> of the extremely poor and desperate. People forgot their responsibility
> to their fellow man because their fellow man who needed help now lived
> in that awful place fifty miles away. City parks were taken over by
> drug users and prostitutes because they were the only ones left.
> Schools, well, schools were simply abandoned to their fate.
>
> The only reason people really live so far from where the work is
> because of the freeway. They thought they would be happy out there, but
> demonstrably they are not. So they keep moving further away, never
> finding happiness, dragging the culture and amenities of the city
> behind them. They wanted to live in quiet farmland, but they wanted
> shopping like they had in the city, so they built huge shopping malls
> and then complained that it was too much like the city and moved even
> further away. They didn't like nosy people telling them how to live in
> the city, so they moved to neighborhoods with restrictive covenants and
> complained. It is madness.
>
> Much of the only land available was near small town airports, so they
> demanded that the airports be closed and developed into more suburbs or
> golf courses. The trains were shut down as freight was transferred to
> the new railroad of the freeways as trucks pulled entire chains of
> trailers behind them across country.
>
> It is time to reverse this trend! Vote no on new freeways! Vote no even
> for maintenance! Elect people who will dynamite the freeways! Elect
> incompetents who will allow the freeways to die of well-deserved
> neglect! Here in Washington State we have been doing that for decades,
> but only half-heartedly. Now is the time to finish the job!
>
> When people realize that suburbia is not the answer, they will move
> back to the cities where they will be happier and those who have to
> live and work in the hinterland and remain behind will be happier.
> Automobile usage will be cut by more than half, along with its
> attendant use of petroleum.
>
> Of course, those who still live out in the sticks will need some other
> way to get around. This will be the rail lines, just like in the old
> days, or they will fly, as God intended. New airports will spring up
> like flowers after a rain. Flight instructors will be busy. The little
> planes will no longer bother anybody because everyone will realize they
> are necessary. Aircraft manufacturers will finally have the incentive
> to innovate and produce airplanes in reasonable numbers.
>
> --
> Waddling Eagle
> World Famous Flight Instructor
Right on! And, vote NO to the outrageous subsidization of General
Aviation airports by commercial passengers and general taxpayers.
Enough of the encroachment of GA airports into residential
neighborhoods, which were there well before any airport.
wrote:
> Vast numbers of automobiles with 2 or 3 or more cars per household;
> long commutes of single drivers; horrible freeway congestion; urban
> sprawl; loss of farmland and wilderness resources; the decay of cities
> and the takeover of large areas of our cities by lawless gangs; obesity
> caused by everyone eating at fast food joints; dependence on foreign
> oil; global warming; pollution; filth, crud, corruption; hundreds of
> thousands dead in traffic accidents; the closure of local airports
> because of expanding city growth:
>
> All of these problems can be traced to the rise of the superhighway. We
> built it, and everybody moved out of town in an ever-increasing spiral
> of flight to a chimera of utopian suburbia. The only people left in the
> cities were a few of the very rich who understood city life and a lot
> of the extremely poor and desperate. People forgot their responsibility
> to their fellow man because their fellow man who needed help now lived
> in that awful place fifty miles away. City parks were taken over by
> drug users and prostitutes because they were the only ones left.
> Schools, well, schools were simply abandoned to their fate.
>
> The only reason people really live so far from where the work is
> because of the freeway. They thought they would be happy out there, but
> demonstrably they are not. So they keep moving further away, never
> finding happiness, dragging the culture and amenities of the city
> behind them. They wanted to live in quiet farmland, but they wanted
> shopping like they had in the city, so they built huge shopping malls
> and then complained that it was too much like the city and moved even
> further away. They didn't like nosy people telling them how to live in
> the city, so they moved to neighborhoods with restrictive covenants and
> complained. It is madness.
>
> Much of the only land available was near small town airports, so they
> demanded that the airports be closed and developed into more suburbs or
> golf courses. The trains were shut down as freight was transferred to
> the new railroad of the freeways as trucks pulled entire chains of
> trailers behind them across country.
>
> It is time to reverse this trend! Vote no on new freeways! Vote no even
> for maintenance! Elect people who will dynamite the freeways! Elect
> incompetents who will allow the freeways to die of well-deserved
> neglect! Here in Washington State we have been doing that for decades,
> but only half-heartedly. Now is the time to finish the job!
>
> When people realize that suburbia is not the answer, they will move
> back to the cities where they will be happier and those who have to
> live and work in the hinterland and remain behind will be happier.
> Automobile usage will be cut by more than half, along with its
> attendant use of petroleum.
>
> Of course, those who still live out in the sticks will need some other
> way to get around. This will be the rail lines, just like in the old
> days, or they will fly, as God intended. New airports will spring up
> like flowers after a rain. Flight instructors will be busy. The little
> planes will no longer bother anybody because everyone will realize they
> are necessary. Aircraft manufacturers will finally have the incentive
> to innovate and produce airplanes in reasonable numbers.
>
> --
> Waddling Eagle
> World Famous Flight Instructor
Right on! And, vote NO to the outrageous subsidization of General
Aviation airports by commercial passengers and general taxpayers.
Enough of the encroachment of GA airports into residential
neighborhoods, which were there well before any airport.