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Article #562Re: Dominant Form of Transportation
From: Jeffrey Siegal
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 17:00
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 17:00
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Scott Mace wrote: > > Jeffrey Siegal wrote: > > > Just eliminating zoning will not eliminate, or likely even reduce, the > > role of the automobile. In particular, the entire city of Houston has > > never had zoning, and there is no shortage of automobile use there. > > People, generally, like cars. > > It's true that reducing or eliminating zoning would not solve the problem. > As to whether this area would choose to merely bulldoze the sides of > freeways and make them wider, instead of building up and building transit, > recent voter history (i.e. Alameda County, BART to San Jose) suggests the > latter rather than the former would occur. The voters have chosen to have zoning. So by that reasoning, the area would be just as it is.
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