Comments on: Eugene Climate & Energy Action Plan- Land Use and Transportation http://eugenegears.org/news/climateenergyactionplan Working to help grow a larger and stronger cycling community. Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:55:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Hans Kuhn http://eugenegears.org/news/climateenergyactionplan/comment-page-1#comment-301 Hans Kuhn Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:14:01 +0000 http://eugenegears.org/?p=1237#comment-301 Shane, Thanks for the excellent summary of the city's climate meeting. Your thoughts are right on the mark. I'd like to see our community leaders (both elected and not) refuse to match federal highway money to free up our local dollars for healthier transportation choices. Currently federal transportation dollars present a devil's bargain wherein we have to agree to live in the past to get our tax dollars back. If we refuse to play, perhaps we can begin to undo the foolish choices we've made for the last 50 years. Shane,

Thanks for the excellent summary of the city’s climate meeting. Your thoughts are right on the mark.
I’d like to see our community leaders (both elected and not) refuse to match federal highway money to free up our local dollars for healthier transportation choices.
Currently federal transportation dollars present a devil’s bargain wherein we have to agree to live in the past to get our tax dollars back. If we refuse to play, perhaps we can begin to undo the foolish choices we’ve made for the last 50 years.

]]> By: Jocelyne Shiner http://eugenegears.org/news/climateenergyactionplan/comment-page-1#comment-300 Jocelyne Shiner Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:03:47 +0000 http://eugenegears.org/?p=1237#comment-300 well said. although eager to participate and give input, our table was unprepared to comment on that which we hadn't been given ample time to read. these issues are way too important to skim over, so I brought my document home. one important slant for those of us newer to eugene... a long-time resident and city planner pointed out a lot of "been there, done that. tried, failed" within the actions and suggestions. perhaps a little history would be helpful? why didn't something work before? do we just need a change of mindset? or, like you mentioned, do we lack funding? our table spent the majority of time debating the carrot and/or stick approach to change. truth is we can't afford to debate for long, but making things palatable is necessary. well said. although eager to participate and give input, our table was unprepared to comment on that which we hadn’t been given ample time to read. these issues are way too important to skim over, so I brought my document home. one important slant for those of us newer to eugene… a long-time resident and city planner pointed out a lot of “been there, done that. tried, failed” within the actions and suggestions. perhaps a little history would be helpful? why didn’t something work before? do we just need a change of mindset? or, like you mentioned, do we lack funding? our table spent the majority of time debating the carrot and/or stick approach to change. truth is we can’t afford to debate for long, but making things palatable is necessary.

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