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Article #288Re: Duraleigh Connector Endangers Umstead State Park
From: Daniel E. Singer
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 00:00
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> With the complete lack of vision in this area, this area will never see > mass transit (in a rail form), a finished outer belt loop, a vibrant > downtown area (specifically Raleigh and Durham), or professional sports teams. > > Also, the lack of cooperation between the 3 (really 4, including Cary) > municipalities with each having different priorities, will eventually cause > the quality of living in this area to decline, due to not being able to work > together to solve this area's problems. This area is regionally paralyzed > into inaction. > > Is the Triangle area the best it will EVER be right now? > > I think so. Does bigger mean better? I don't think this area needs growth. But I'm sure there are plenty of special interests who will profit nicely in the short run on growth. Growth is like a pyramid scheme. Eventually it blows up, but the blow-up may come a generation or two later. Perhaps I'm over-reacting, but do we need professional sports here? Do we need the increase in population that it takes to support professional sports? That's what all these new roads do: support population growth, new subdivisions, etc. I'd like to see us move towards sustainable economies, not just a dependence on growth. My two cents worth. -Dan
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 101acf,f2ab0195f4f81eb2 X-Google-Attributes: gid101acf,public X-Google-Thread: 116ede,f2ab0195f4f81eb2 X-Google-Attributes: gid116ede,public X-Google-Thread: 108a25,f2ab0195f4f81eb2 X-Google-Attributes: gid108a25,public X-Google-Thread: 10d442,f2ab0195f4f81eb2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d442,public X-Google-Thread: 10fdd3,f2ab0195f4f81eb2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10fdd3,public X-Google-Thread: 114e5f,f2ab0195f4f81eb2 X-Google-Attributes: gid114e5f,public From: "Daniel E. Singer" <des@cs.duke.edu> Subject: Re: Duraleigh Connector Endangers Umstead State Park Date: 1995/06/15 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950615163207.5583C-100000@egret.cs.duke.edu> X-Deja-AN: 104518607 content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII organization: Duke University Department of Computer Science mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: duke.general,duke.cs.general,triangle.general,triangle.politics,mcnc.general,ncsc.general