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What to Do About Suburban Sprawl: Let the Communities Decide |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Daniel R. Simmons |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2000 |
| Size: 1,380 Words, 8,967 Characters |
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First, average commute times are not increasing. Although vehicle miles traveled increased 166 percent and population increased over 31 percent in the last 30 years, commute times are lower today than they were in 1969. The U.S. Department of Transportation's Nationwide Personal Transportation Study reports that national average commute times dropped from 22.0 minutes in 1969 to 20.7 minutes in 1995. Thus, even as the suburbs "sprawled," commute times decreased.
Second, people often think that more cars on the road must mean air quality is getting worse. In fact, however, air quality has improved. The Environmental Protection Agency's National Air Quality and Emissions Trend Report, 1997 states, "Nationally, the 1997 average air quality levels are the best on record for all six criteri...
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...nce for the dog, all the things they want, and we call it bad, nasty sprawl. Why don't we call it great?"
Having a house, a yard, a garden or pool, and a fence is great. It is certainly not a problem for America, except for when government planners try to fix it. Then those with the least political and economic power are pushed yet one more step back from a fair shot at the American dream.
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