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No joke
Land-use policy is not a laughing matter |
Ryan Avent |
14 Jan 2008 |
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| It was just a fleeting moment amid the hours of presidential debate that have taken place through this longest of election cycles, but it nonetheless warmed my heart. No-longer-a-candidate Bill Richardson, in response to a question on climate policy, said of the fight against climate change: It's going to take a transportation policy that doesn't just build more highways. We have to have commuter rail, light rail, open spaces. We've got to have land-use policies where ... |
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| Topics: cars, politics, public transportation, sprawl, urban planning (all these topics) |
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