Re "popular support": Check out the film "Taken for a Ride" which details
the destruction of the transit systems around the country by GM, Firestone,
et. al. How can popular support be developed for something which doesn't
exist. Can we "vote with our dollars" when there isn't something to vote
for?
THE WAy highways are funded is perpetual -- more concrete, and nobody
gets to vote for that. There IS tremendous and wide appeal for an end to
highway widening (pace, Jim Devine.) there are many anti-freeway groups
around the country, blocking particular wideneings and new construction.
Doug Henwood wrote:
> Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> >Audie Bock, the new Green Assembly representative from Cal. has a
> >question for us. She asked, about transit issues. She quotes: "I have
> >the impression that mass transit and highway planning are treated as two
> >separate and distinct issues. I believe that when planning our highways
> >in California we could incorporate mass transit. What is the economic
> >feasibility of providing genuine mass transit throughout California?
> >Should we, as legislators view these items as interrelated from an
> >economic standpoint?"
>
> Isn't there like zero popular support for mass transit in California? How
> can you push a policy, however humane and rational, that no one wants?
>
> Doug
