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Thursday, July 28, 2011
What a 10-year transit "dead zone" could mean for CincinnatiThe COAST anti-rail amendment would lock out even preliminary what-if preparations for future rail-based transit for a decade.Among other effects, that means it would be against the law for the city to take advantage of breakthroughs in technology. We cannot imagine today what game-changing new developments could come along in the next 10 years, but this amendment would guarantee they would have no place in Cincinnati. Think that's not a big deal? Consider the technology you use today that didn't exist -- or you'd never heard of -- in 2001. Smartphones, YouTube, hybrid and electric cars and the iPod. Not to mention a revolutionary artificial heart, nano-tech fabrics, genetic therapies, new solar and wind power systems, and a thousand other discoveries that made radical differences in almost every corner of the economy. Do Cincinnati voters really want to make "10 Years Behind the Times" the city's official, charter-level law? There are plenty of other dangers embedded in this amendment. Look here for what it really means Labels: charter amendment
posted by Cincinnatians For Progress at
10:35 PM
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