BIKE: Austin congestion is now decreasing!

[Mike Dahmus]

Dave Westenbarger wrote;

But I believe the ferocity of
the defense of the sprawl "way of life" reveals the
deep seated nature of its pull on us.


That's a plausible explanation. But I think it's equally plausible that the last 60 years of subsidized sprawl have left most people living in areas where the only kind of high-density living they can view are slums. (Most people don't get to see the residential life of the average New Yorker; they instead get to see boarded up deteriorated crime-infested neighborhoods in the doughnut-hole around which their sprawlburb has grown).

- MD