Zoning Changes
As I wrote yesterday, I don't know Phoenix and have no idea if the new light rail project there makes much sense, but I do know that such projects in places like Phoenix are much more likely to be good ideas if it's understood that development patterns around the rail line should change. It isn't enough to simply say that another way to go from A to B has been created, it should be understood that development, and lifestyle, around the rail line should, over time, evolve to better make use of it. According
to this article, there's at least some thinking along those lines.
Nobody Could Have Predicted
In fact,
plenty of people did.Still, it's very wrong to hurt the feelings of our elite overlords by suggesting that they have some responsibility for, well, anything. It makes them very sad. And the sadness of very rich people is something which hurts us all.
Temecula
I have no idea how bad the economic downturn will be nationally, but it's pretty clear that more locally some places are just
going to be destroyed.
Overnight
BREAKING: I'm going to bed.
Blocks!
I don't know Phoenix at all so don't have any opinion whether the light rail system there makes any sense (I mean, over and above my general feeling that they should be built everywhere), but I loved
this from a hater:
I can't wait for all the complaints we'll hear once the temperature is 110 degrees . . . and the riders find no shade (has anyone looked at those useless wings provided for shade?) while waiting and, worst of all, will have to walk blocks to get where they want to go.
You might have to walk blocks!
Overhead Wires
Regulation and the desirability
OF SUPERTRAMS aside, I've frequently come in contact with people who consider overhead wires to be such an abomination that they think that any neighborhood which has them is worst than a third world shanty town. This particular aesthetic bugaboo has long puzzled me. Don't mind them at all.
Route 15
Philadelphia SUPERTRAM.
EATED
Brits take majority stake in Royal Bank of Scotland. Sounds like it's time to fly the Union Jack
over Citizen's Bank Park.
They Destroyed Themselves
I think it might have made sense to keep home mortgages out of bankruptcy court when they were actually highly regulated, but the
law should be changed now. More than that, if it had been that way for the last few years the financial industry may have been less successful at destroying itself.
Tweety
I really hope the PA Dem party and the DSCC aren't going to consider muscling everyone but
Tweety out of the senate primary.
Not Just Wrong
But delighted in sneering at
those who were right.
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