First APA denounced Trent Lott's comments (now we all know racism is bad). Now New Urbanism.org has this statement under its "news" page:
THE UNITED STATES DEFENSE BUDGET FOR THIS YEAR IS $400 BILLION! WE THINK THAT IS COMPLETELY OUTRAGEOUS! WE PROPOSE SPENDING AT LEAST HALF OF THIS MONEY BUILDING METRO RAIL SYSTEMS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES AS OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE
STRATEGY Instead of creating "weapons of mass destruction" meant for destroying countries and killing people, we propose spending this money building Metro rail systems across America as our national defense strategy. . . it goes on
www.newurbanism.org/pages/416431/index.htm
I do agree that this country should be spending more on a national passenger rail system, but are new urbanists really experts on foriegn policy and defense spending? I support new urbanism as a planning strategy, but its not a political party for God's sake. This sort of thing just makes planners look like a bunch of kooky activists with no basis in reality.
THE UNITED STATES DEFENSE BUDGET FOR THIS YEAR IS $400 BILLION! WE THINK THAT IS COMPLETELY OUTRAGEOUS! WE PROPOSE SPENDING AT LEAST HALF OF THIS MONEY BUILDING METRO RAIL SYSTEMS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES AS OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE
STRATEGY Instead of creating "weapons of mass destruction" meant for destroying countries and killing people, we propose spending this money building Metro rail systems across America as our national defense strategy. . . it goes on
www.newurbanism.org/pages/416431/index.htm
I do agree that this country should be spending more on a national passenger rail system, but are new urbanists really experts on foriegn policy and defense spending? I support new urbanism as a planning strategy, but its not a political party for God's sake. This sort of thing just makes planners look like a bunch of kooky activists with no basis in reality.