Occasionally I may miss something Angus. I have responded to both posts. To lower yourself to name calling and petty threats is pretty unbecoming.

Comment by Angus Grieve-Smith: I generally prefer personal transportation to mass transit as well: getting places on foot, by bike and by skate. It's very handy for Glenn to restrict "personal transportation" to motorized personal transportation; another example of "if you can't go fifty miles an hour and don't weigh at least two tons, you don't count."

You have me all wrong Angus. I never qualified "personal transportation" to motorized types. I have been an avid cyclist for my entire life. I have continuously been on some type of competitive cycling team since the 1980s!

Comment by Angus Grieve-Smith: "Auto-phobic" implies an irrational fear of automobiles, but there's nothing irrational about it. I'm assuming that you wouldn't call gun-control advocates "gun-phobic" or poison-control advocates "poison-phobic," so don't call us "auto-phobic."

We'll have to agree to disagree. I think the fear of cars (guns and poison too, for that matter) is irrational. Like anything else, there is a level of respect that must be given. But I read a lot of what sounds like fear. Maybe the sentiment is getting lost over the web, but I'll call it auto-phobia when it looks like it.

Comment by Angus Grieve-Smith: "I don't see why I have to tolerate the "paper of record" printing [ideas from someone I disagree with]"

We all do Angus.

I generally prefer personal transportation to mass transit as well: getting places on foot, by bike and by skate. Sam Staley's proposals and his favored lifestyle are quite openly hostile to that kind of personal transportation. It's very handy for Glenn to restrict "personal transportation" to motorized personal transportation; another example of "if you can't go fifty miles an hour and don't weigh at least two tons, you don't count."

"Auto-phobic" implies an irrational fear of automobiles, but there's nothing irrational about it. According to the CDC, car crashes are the leading cause (26%) of "injury deaths." I'm assuming that you wouldn't call gun-control advocates "gun-phobic" or poison-control advocates "poison-phobic," so don't call us "auto-phobic."

My argument was that a 10:1 ratio is probably a more accurate reflection of the number of people in New York who want serious mass transit and pedestrian improvements as compared to the number of New Yorkers who want to turn the city into Scottsdale or Bellbrook.

I tolerate the pro-auto people in my neighborhood very well, thank you. I don't see why I have to tolerate the "paper of record" printing the wacky rantings of some out-of-touch tunnel fanatic in Ohio, just because they happen to be subsidized by wealthy donors?

Now, can you respond to my response to your comments in this thread and this other thread or are you just a troll who can't back up his argument?

10:1? Isn't 1:1 fair?
Maybe the auto-phobic need to stack the odds against the fact that people generally prefer using personal transportation?
It is called tolerance.

Me too. If Sam Staley's vision came true, the Times could sell more car ads.

I also wonder why the Times prints this crap. For every Reason Foundation "let's pave New York!" op-ed, they should have ten by the likes of Aaron Naparstek (of course), Paul White, Charlie Komanoff and George Haikalis. You know, people who live here and have to deal with the transportation improvements that get built.

More bridges over the Hudson! More elevated roadways! A tunnel under the Long Island Sound!

But I particularly loved the notion of converting underused railways to highways.

If the railways make appropriate enough connections to serve motorists, wouldn't they also do as, just thinking out loud here, commuter railways?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/43954081@N00/

DOT Commissioner Sadik-Khan even stopped by and joined us for a few minutes on her (victory) lap. We thanked her for the additional hour and encouraged her to keep going and go for a full ban on all cars.

We even turned around a few cars that tried to enter at 96th street even though the gate was still down, but then unfortunately some Parks Department/Conservancy workers lifted the gates at 7:40am. Clear signs are needed at all entrances about the new rules.

We captured quite a few pictures and video of "School Safety" police vehicles speeding through the park.

Glenn McAnanama
President, Upper Green Side
http://www.uppergreenside.org

This guy from Reason is so far off base, it is as if he his thinking is in the stone ages of planning.

Does anyone have the data which shows that we have more road lanes per capita than LA in the metro region? Also, isn't part of the problem with our highway funding that we have too many highways to maintain?