Look at all the people in the picture!

Are they living there or just existing in their homes?

 

E Rocc, I guess I was just making a statement about following the herd. Its funny the people in my office that complain about life the most all live outside the 275 loop. They all act like they have some divine right to be able to drive thier kids all over the country every night without traffic in thier way.

Meanwhile, I hop off my 8 minute bus ride home all relaxed and try to decide which bar/restaurant/entertainment venue to walk to tonight.

It may be planned more so than the others, but it's still terrible.  There is a sidewalk, but no connections to that sidewalk...thus rendering it useless to the pedestrian.  They also created the nice buffers from the roadway, but that effectively further segregates an already extremely segregated community.  I would assume the houses that don't face the road are worth more, while the others that enjoy the view of a large/unusable front yard...roadway...and an earth berm that is meant to shield the view of others into the more wealthy homes.

 

Sure the project at least had some thought put into it, rather than simply slapping down the same plan you would put anywhere...but was that thinking actually productive and/or did it accomplish any social good?

I get what you mean, Jeffrey. That's not a bad-looking development, not as sterile as many and with provision for walking/biking, and it will look better as the landscaping grows in and gives it an established look. I can't tell, though, if there are any pedestrian/bike destinations within reach.

 

Getting back to the off-topic discussion that's been bouncing back and forth, I've met few true libertarians -- I can't think of any, right now -- but I've met many people who appropriate the label because they think it's less onerous than "conservative." As just one example, they denounce "subsidies" to mass transit and passenger rail and advocate more "investment" in publicly-owned local airports with budget fares and extra lanes on the feeder roads and expressways to ease their solo commutes.

 

I've never met met a libertarian who believes that limited-access highways should cover their operating expense and amorize their capital costs with user fees, or recover for the municipalities the tax revenue lost when the right-of-way was lost from the tax base.