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June 22, 2005
Anti-auto Suburban Design
Talk about quixotic! The Washington Post reports on an effort to compel people to live with fewer cars -- and they're going to try to do it in the heart of NOVA suburbia, the Vienna Metro station.
Somehow the location of this effort makes it all the more untenable. If they were serious about re-densification of settlement patterns why are they doing it at the end of the Metro line? I'm sure that's the only place the developers can afford to put up this many tall buildings (closer in would be prohibitive), but it seems that the folks at the end of the line have already chosen to live in a more suburban environment (well, as much as anyone choses anything in that real estate market other than what they can get in the scramble.
The article ends on what I believei s a suitably sceptical note.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at June 22, 2005 6:56 AM