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Instead, Los Angeles is now experiencing a population explosion. Who could have predicted that keeping traffic moving is an important way of preventing overpopulation?
In reality, traffic was lighter than normal across a wide area. California Department of Transportation reported that fewer vehicles used the roads than usual, and those who did travel by road arrived more quickly than on a normal weekend.
Yes, whoda thought that planning ahead had positive outcomes? Nevertheless, I wouldn’t call decreasing the birth rate a cost. Sounds like a benefit.
DS
It comes as a great relief to me to discover you like children. No offense, but somehow I had pictured you as the Garrett Hardin type. Garrett Hardin had some interesting ideas but I steadfastly disagree with him. That’s not to say I disagree with you all the time, I agree with you on quite a few points.
Well said, breeder. And Jardinero, let me spell this one out for you. Dan thinks that decreasing the birth rate is a good thing. That is, he thinks people shouldn’t be reproducing as much. Even though he has kids. Typical planner. Living in the ‘burbs telling people to live in density. Big house. Kids. Yada yada yada.
PS
See you in PDX in August, Dan, at the International Society of Arboriculture International Conference. Can’t wait to chat.
PPS
Nevermind! The Ecological Society of America conference from August 5th to the 10th is much cheaper and the dates work better for my Oregon backpack. Plus there is a Q&A. Can’t wait to grill you. Beers after at HUB for you and Metrosucks and anyone else joining.
I’ll take you up on that offer, Frank. Just keep me away from Dan.
I’m speaking at two conferences that week and backpacking in between. If I’m available in between catching up with friends, we can discuss your mendacious rhetorical tactics: mischaracterization, conflation, false premises, and so on.
DS
Plus there is a Q&A. Can’t wait to grill you. Beers after at HUB for you and Metrosucks and anyone else joining.
That is a learning seminar for ecologists wishing to expand their knowledge base. There will be no grandstanding in my seminar.
DS
Grandstanding? How about asking if anyone can take you seriously given quoted text of your writing here? There’s no requirement to have an ecology degree to attend the conference, by the way.
Metrosucks, you’re welcome to join me at HUB in early August. I’ll have The Antiplanner email you my contact info.
BTW, Dan, you still haven’t addressed the hypocrisy of breeding when you believe a lower birthrate is “a benefit.”
Let’s see:
Asking Dan questions, especially critical ones: Grandstanding
Pointing out inconsistencies in Dan’s argument: hand-flapping or hand-waving
Pointing out that Dan is a hypocrite who doesn’t live what he preaches: Mean old bully stalking him
That about cover it?
Frank, I’ll shoot you a message when I hear from Randal, to confirm everything is working email-wise.
Your deep concern for the nuances of the subject is touching. All questions during the session to gain more insight on the topic are welcomed, of course. That is why people attend and pay money – to gain knowledge.
Any question or statement not directly pertaining to the topic will be considered grandstanding, especially in light of the low quality, transparent and weak rhetoric displayed just above.
Dan, you still haven’t addressed the hypocrisy of breeding when you believe a lower birthrate is “a benefit.â€
That would require addressing the the fact that some guess, make things up, flail about, etc. in hopes to gain advantage. That would be embarrassing for the flailers to point out this need.
DS
You have to admire the dictatorial bravado of Portland government. When a limo company offers Groupon coupons to the public, Big Brother Portland sweeps in and fines them half a million dollars. You can’t let a transportation company cut its prices!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/26/portland-livery-law-taxi-cab_n_1316151.html
Try living in New York where it costs a million dollars to license one through the medallion. Only “medallion taxicabs,” those painted in distinctive yellow and regulated by the TLC sporting it’s distinctive metal badge, are permitted to pick up passengers in response to a street hail. Back then owning a car, painting it, calling it a taxi was a way for the poor to lift themselves out of poverty. It was encouraging entrepreneurship. It was also a way of boosting the living standards for immigrant’s with lack of skills or understanding of the English language.
Though the irony is that those “medallions” that you don’t like are also some one elses “property rights”.
Even O’Toole’s works of fiction for Cato are copyrighted.
Except that NYC doesn’t consider those medallions to be private property. Cabs can sell them, but the city reserves the right to change or cancel them for any or no reason.
Exactly, and their so expensive only big companies can buy them. Instead of entrepreneur, you mearly have employees. It restricts entry into a market preventing people from using their own vehicles as cabs, in essence disallowing people to use their own property in a marketable manner. Very much like telling someone they cant harvest their own trees on their own land for timber. The purpose of the medallions is to keep outsiders out so the ”insiders” can charge us higher prices. One of the few places where it’s still easy to start a taxi business is Washington D.C. but some lobbyists want to introduce the medallion rule. Regulation already exists resulting in petty harrassment wasting police resources on tedious paperwork. This would cut the amount of taxi’s allowed in D.C. by half. Simply ask Michael Brown, the D.C. lobbyist (member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority) whose worked to pass that legislation.
You still want forms of protectionism, that is the irony.
Hidden costs of congestion, it makes pollution even worse. In truth there really isn’t much that Los Angeles can do about that. The smog season lasts from May to October and unlike other large cities that rely on rain to clear smog, Los Angeles gets only 15 inches annually. It’s air is certainly way better than it was in the 70’s which averaged 100 level 1 smog alerts a year to nearly none today, still it’s bad. It’s air quality is a byproduct of it’s geography. The area is susceptible to atmospheric inversion (where columns of dense air hold and press down on the existing air in the valley) which holds in the exhausts from road vehicles, airplanes, locomotives, shipping, manufacturing, and other sources.
Another off-topic article of interest. How a tourist views a city’s public transportation system:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/a-public-transportation-vacation-philadelphia-shows-pros-cons-of-carless-trip/2012/04/26/gIQA3KeylT_story.html
It’s an interesting article, and confirms what I’ve longed believed as a transport planner – it’s not so much as case of people ‘not wanting to travel with strangers’ – it’s more of a problem figuring out what’s going on. It’s very obvious to the transit company, reasonably obvious to the old hands, but a complete mystery to everyone else. That’s where a lot of the transit budget needs to go.
The article also shows how much time is lost and unpredictable while travelling on public transit, especially when travelling off-peak and trying to go someplace other than downtown.
Plus, as you said, there is just great confusion, even about where exactly a bus stop is located.