Our friends at TxDOT, City Planning, City Manager's office, City Council, the CPC, the Transportation Policy Board of the MPO, etc. should watch the videos below. In fact, all El Pasoans should see these. Together both will take just 31 minutes of your time. Watching them beats a sitcom re-run. The first came to me from Judy Ackerman via Fred Eiland. The second I learned about from the speaker himself in an email. He was a key speaker at a city planning workshop over a year ago.
The question is why are we so backwards when it comes to urban design including more opportunities for pedestrians and bicyclists? There is so much to be gained as the videos will show.
Upon reviewing some documents relevant to TxDOT's refusal to allow CMAQ funds to go where they were intended to go (an El Paso bike share program), one expert told me: "They [TxDOT] don't see bicycles as a form of transportation! So for them the only way to reduce emissions is to enable/encourage more people to drive, then make them more efficient (which actually adds, not cuts emissions).
Speck speaks to the question of walkability/lifestyle versus more efficient gadgets:
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