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"I look forward to the day the so-called smart growth people notice that their pedestrian, transit, bicycle "lifestyle" is 100% dependent on a never ending flotilla of food and retail delivery trucks, among other critical infrastructure."

so is the suburban autocentric lifestyle. Just as much fuel to bring a truckload of groceries to a suburban giant as to an urban Harris Teeter, so thats a wash (delivery fleets of course could be good candidates for conversion to Compressed Natural Gas)

"The 'burbs aren't going anywhere either. Americans aren't going to abandon their suburban homes to live in a traditional city just because they have to pay a few bucks more at the pump. This is just not realistic."

may wont, some will. Thats why solutions need to be multifaceted. The suburbs will change, however, in many different ways. among other things more intersuburban commuters will telework, and suburbanites will be more reluctant to take jobs located far from their current homes - driving oakton to Tysons may work, but driving Oakton to Rockville, not so much.

by AWalkerInTheCity on Mar 14, 2012 10:27 am • link • report

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