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NWI is hardly rural. It could densify if the incentives were there. We shouldn't keep subsidizing the expansion of suburban infrastructure by keeping gas artifi
by omegaworks 10y ago
NWI is hardly rural. It could densify if the incentives were there. We shouldn't keep subsidizing the expansion of suburban infrastructure by keeping gas artificially cheap.
- graycat 10y agoSure, NWI includes Gary, long important for steel. I got married in Indiana, and our dinner that night was in South Bend on our way to Chicago. South Bend didn't look very big, and near South Bend looked quite rural. The wedding was 15 miles south of Warsaw; it wasn't very big, and the surrounding area was farm country. The wedding was in Claypool, and her family was from a farm on the east side of County Farm Road a little south of the railroad tracks E-W about the latitude of Claypool. Her father was a really good guy, had been a Captain in WWII, did well in farming, built the house and the farm buildings, mixed his own animal feed, was on the bank BoD, was active in Lions, was on the school board, eventually ran the local REMC, etc. She was a fantastic student, high school Valedictorian, PBK, "Highest Distinction", Woodrow Wilson, NSF at IU, Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins. I also spent five years in Ohio, at OSU, in Columbus. From all I can see, Ohio, Indiana, ..., are heavily rural and very much want and need cars. There the pollution from cars is of little concern. Sure, Manhattan is different.