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New Albany is a state of mind … but whose? Since 2004, we’ve been observing the contemporary scene in this slowly awakening old river town. If it’s true that a pre-digital stopped clock is right twice a day, when will New Albany learn to tell time?
Friday, November 18, 2011
Doomed to dependence on automobiles and foreign oil. That's some way to live.
If all the pain and agony surrounding the ORBP genuinely purports to address any semblance of what the Louisville area's transportation needs will be in 50 years, then why is mass transit not a part of the ongoing conversation? At the end of the day, the reason why I oppose the ORBP paradigm so strenuously is less about tolls or Kerry Stemler's breathtaking arrogance than the fact of its sheer expense and auto-centric scale effectively precluding civilized public transportation construction for THE REST OF MY LIFE.
A tolled ORBP is just another mechanism to efficiently gather and move much of our financial capital out of the region. Mass transit is a mechanism to gather and move much of our human capital within the region.
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Still don't know why the region is forced to pick one or the other. Moving interstate freight AND moving residents locally are both necessary to function in the future. Neither move now.
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