Anti Road Anti Automobile Elitist Dogmas Pushed By Elitists

Principles:

 

a rigid ideology against any expansion of existing roads.

 

A rigid ideology against any new roads (outside new subdivisions)

 

A rigid ideology against roads with grade separation - bridges/tunnels - to avoid stop signs and/or traffic lights.

 

A total disregard for discussing cleaner burning renewable, safest form of improved octane Ethanol in motor vehicle fuel, if not simply a contempt for Ethanol that regurgitates American Petroleum Institute disinformation.  And if there is any positive mention of alternative fuels, its confined to "bio fuels" that are patent protected, with zero discussion of the relative production costs. (Akin to mass media reporting upon patent protected pharmaceuticals,versus those that are either already generic, or naturally occurring and therefore non patent protected).

 

A rigid insistence that countries as the U.S.A., and for such places as within New York City and Washington D..C are somehow too poor to plan both underground expressways and transit - essentially that we MUST cancel underground expressways "for all time" in order to secure additional funding for transit.

A rigid ideology to shift traffic burdens disproportionately upon less affluent areas, with Washington D.C. being what really should be a textbook example taught in planning related schools.

A rigid ideology that only bicycling or rail transit matters, never-mind the densities, distances and practicalities.

 

A rigid ideology so in favor of transit oriented development that places substantial new development - office towers as well as new residences - directly next to scarce transportation corridor to directly create conflict with future transport corridor additions as additional rail-tracks as well as expressway tunnels.

 

This same rigid ideology, so bent upon blocking transportation corridor expansion, that it has total contempt for safety by placing new development dangerously within the footprint of a rail de-derailment, particularly that of heavy rail freight cars, made even worse by placing such at a lower elevation.  The 1999 Yale University Architectural School graduate situated "Elevation 314" residence immediately south of the WMATA Takoma station, just within north-north central Washington, D.C. station a prime suitable textbook example of piss poor planning.

A disregard of basic common sense, such as supposedly favoring buses yet waxing over making streets more narrow like after a snow storm.

 

A neglect of mixed use, (asides from a few coffee and food shops within walking distance of certain transit oriented development), with absolute bans on any sort of businesses within residences, even as innoculous as software creation or web page development, let alone smaller industrial facilities upon residential zoning, even upon lots larger than 3 or 5 acres, as well as upon farms with residences.

 

Zoning prohibitions against "unregistered" and/or inoperable automobiles upon private property, particularly residential, even in one's own driveway, even if under a car cover, even within a semi open car port, even if the view is blocked by high fencing and even worse even if indoors, or perhaps limited to a single such car.