Comment 80819

By Friendly Suburbanite (anonymous) | Posted September 11, 2012 at 10:23:51

Great, great article.
I happen to be one of those people that does not work or travel downtown frequently other than to pass through the core to get somewhere else. In my case, I embrace the logic behind the conversion argument. No need to preach to the choir here. However, if my overtaxed ("our tax money goes to subsidize the lower city!") neighbours where to be convinced that they would receive a financial benefit somehow ...

I believe there is a loud counter-argument. You may never sway these people. I also believe there is a huge, dormant part of the population that doesn't really care one way or the other (pun intended) if we convert to two ways downtown. We may initially view these people as just apathetic, but really they are undecided. We could potentially bring them around with a "Why should you care" argument that would have an impact on them personally. Lower taxes would certainly do the trick I think. "We need to make the downtown more self sufficient..." Something like that. Just throwing it out there.

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