May 19, 2008A look at the future as now for Virginia's transportation systemAnyone giving serious thought to Virginia's continuing transportation debate should check out the column "Three Little Words" on the Bacon's Rebellion e-zine. Columnist E.M. Risse challenges readers to face a new reality: no cheap energy. And he includes in that alternative energy; there's no place to run and find the cheap energy that has made it possible for people to settle where they must depend on "Large Private Vehicles" to live. Risse, a regional planner, maintains, "[A]ny new infrastructure 'solution' that supports Large, Private Vehicles is not just impossible but proposing such a strategy would amount to fraud." |
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May 19, 2008
A look at the future as now for Virginia's transportation system
Anyone giving serious thought to Virginia's continuing transportation debate should check out the column "Three Little Words" on the Bacon's Rebellion e-zine. Columnist E.M. Risse challenges readers to face a new reality: no cheap energy. And he includes in that alternative energy; there's no place to run and find the cheap energy that has made it possible for people to settle where they must depend on "Large Private Vehicles" to live. Risse, a regional planner, maintains, "[A]ny new infrastructure 'solution' that supports Large, Private Vehicles is not just impossible but proposing such a strategy would amount to fraud."
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