Comments on: Seattle’s “Car-Free” Sundays

By: Education Blog

Education Blog — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:36:28 +0000

Thanks for your article, Now there is more reason to comment than ever before! This is a great fir for our project!

By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:16:42 +0000

The areas they're closing are neighborhoods, not main thoroughfares. Venomous Kates last blog post..Beedle the Bard Released For The Public

By: rammer

rammer — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:58:47 +0000

I bought a house 18 miles from work. 2 miles from the drug store and 1 from the grocery. That decision was based on the availability to me and mine of the roads within two counties, four different cities and a federal highway. I have the opportunity to vote and pay taxes in about half of those entities. While the other half could ban travel through their region, and thus screw me out of access to their roads that I use to get to where I need to go, I do own a Jeep and would f-ing drive all over their country-side anyway. To close a public road to public traffic is a breach of faith deserving of ridicule and derision.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:08:03 +0000

Well, there's far and there's far. I'm 10.7 miles from my office. Twenty minutes if the traffic is worse than usual. And inasmuch as I get 21.4 mpg on average, I burn up one gallon of gas on the round trip. The bus is slightly cheaper, if I want to spend two and a half hours in transit instead of forty minutes. (Which, I hasten to add, I don't.) CGHills last blog post..Fit for a queen

By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:28:06 +0000

It doesn't need to be a law. It's common sense. If a person takes a job far from where they live they run the risk of gas prices going up and their spendable income going down. Venomous Kates last blog post..Beedle the Bard Released For The Public

By: miriam

miriam — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:54:17 +0000

Since most people own their homes, but change jobs more than once in a lifetime, it would not be practical for everyone to live near his place of employment. Unless they pass a law that one cannot take a job more than two miles from where they live, which I wouldn’t put past the interfering busybodies running things nowadays.

Let people drive wherever they want, for God’s sake! If they don’t want to be obese, they can drive to the gym.

miriams last blog post..A living substance

By: silvermine

silvermine — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:05:13 +0000

Yes, it's stupid. They have no business wasting everyone's time on this. It is not their job to cure fatness. It's just a ridiculous ploy to look like they're doing something, despite being completely ineffective and obnoxious. Sort of like airport screening. silvermines last blog post..Homeschooling Questions Answered

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:08:41 +0000

It's a tedious academic piece, but if you have the time to spare, Jerry Herron wrote "Detroit and the Humiliation of History." It explores a lot about sprawl and how the city got killed by it. Jays last blog post..Afire with arrogance

By: One Fine Jay

One Fine Jay — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

society about thirty years ago and why you don’t see random fit kids in those television reports of famine in Africa.” That’s because simple truth and simple facts don’t get grant money: our kids are eating more, we don’t cook as well,we drive too much, we watch too much TV, and we don’t want our children playing outside for fear of the latest bogeyman at the ten o’clock news so we stick ‘em in front of a Wii, or worse, any other game console, and expect them to stay fit.