Posted by
BerkoC on Saturday, March 07, 2009 1:39:34 PM
Below is a video of the governor of California talking about land use and how to build infrastructure in a way that is supposedly good for the for the planet. Please take a look and we can discuss below.
What Arnold says is very interesting and there are some nuggets in there, but how he is proposing it is all backwards. The more we invest into public transit the less infrastructure we will actually have. We need new roads and highway infrastructure because those are the things that actually get people to A and B and also get goods from A to B. How are all the truckers of the US going to deliver goods on a train? No, that just doesn't work, we can't get trains to the place that trucks can and get people the things they need. Instead we should implement a system nationwide similar to tollways in the East Coast. Those that use the road more must pay for it. This way the infrastructure of the country is a self-sustained business and those that cannot afford to use it will find alternative transport thus making subways and trains sustainable business. There is no need for direct investment from the government to maintain an infrastructure in this country, we just need to hand it over to private corporations and they can manage it as a for-profit program, that is how we can save US infrastructure.