Comments on: So Many Green Efforts, So Little Time: Introducing ‘Picks of the Week’ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/28/so-many-green-efforts-so-little-time-introducing-picks-of-the-week/ News & commentary on sustainability, activism, urban planning, politics, and our world. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:54:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rick http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/28/so-many-green-efforts-so-little-time-introducing-picks-of-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-3738 Rick Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:18:47 +0000 http://ecolocalizer.com/?p=759#comment-3738 Urban blight is a major problem and has been exacerbated with the glut of homes abandoned because of foreclosure. Our cities are such sprawling endeavors that it is a wonder why the planning and zoning pretty much stopped at straight streets. Our public transportation since since the 1910s has dwindled and roads are more pervasive than yards. Take Berlin for example, they still have a subway line that has been running for over a hundred years. We have a lot of cities that abandoned their plans after too many insider deals and people not wanting it to be there to sell cars. Check out the movie 'Ticket to Ride', it explains how GM took local cities' public transportation infrastructures and then destroyed them. Sad. Urban blight is a major problem and has been exacerbated with the glut of homes abandoned because of foreclosure.

Our cities are such sprawling endeavors that it is a wonder why the planning and zoning pretty much stopped at straight streets. Our public transportation since since the 1910s has dwindled and roads are more pervasive than yards.

Take Berlin for example, they still have a subway line that has been running for over a hundred years. We have a lot of cities that abandoned their plans after too many insider deals and people not wanting it to be there to sell cars.

Check out the movie ‘Ticket to Ride’, it explains how GM took local cities’ public transportation infrastructures and then destroyed them. Sad.

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