Reader comments: Davis plans for transportation future

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lowonoil | 7:24 a.m. Sept. 23, 2008
The Legacy North will never be built. Davis county is buying the land at what will be it's historic peak price because of the common misconception that future auto dependent suburban growth is likely. Once our grim energy reality sets in, and it's implications for our future way of life are understood, the land will likely be resold at fire sale prices to those who wish to farm it.
The documentary "End of Suburbia" is now about five years old but it's predictions are still frightenly accurate.
Re: lowonoil | 10:18 a.m. Sept. 23, 2008
Your future looks pretty dim huh lowonoil? While I agree oil's days are numbered we still have natural gas, electricity, and hopefully hydrogen among other things. Transition is difficult, it's not the end of the world.
lowonoil | 12:16 p.m. Sept. 23, 2008
Not as dim as you think, 10:18. Perhaps we won't continue to be a nation of loners isolated in our cars and suburban homes staring at our video entertainment devices while we grow fat, weak and sick.
Maybe we will migrate back to walkable communities and become acquainted with our neighbors again. Maybe we will get out on our bikes again free from the fear of being crushed by one of the hundreds of inattentive motorists who pass within inches of you and turn in front of you.
Maybe the rising costs of energy intensive processed overpackaged convenience foods transported from distant factories will inspire people to learn to cook and eat meals that don't have long lists of mysterious scientific sounding ingredients.
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