[SmithL]

But then, some people do not believe in property rights, at all.

[steve-b]

Did you know there were no bats on Earth until we emerged from the last Ice Age 12,000 years ago?

That statement is sufficiently idiotic to put a big red "IGNORE" stamp on the entire article, and a provisional stamp on anything churned out by this author.

[P.O.E.]

What's wrong with suburban sprawl?

TRAFFIC!@#&_*

[GOPJ]

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[Trajan88]

I'll tell you what's bad about it... the local governments re-zone a bunch of once-rural land as retail/singe-family/multi-family. The big boxes (Best Buy, Toys 'r' Us, Wal-Mart Supercenters, Costco) show up and the road infrastructure is in no way able to handle the growth.

It happened in Frisco, Texas (the "highway" 121 corridor)... it is a nightmare trying to navigate east/west, much less north/south on Preston Rd. (state highway 289). What the heck are these local governments doing with all the tax revenue gathered? Why do not they use it to build "FREE" roads (that one doesn't have to pay a toll to drive on?).

Highway 121 is going to be a toll road (they're going to gleen the windfall money to support roads in other locales - total bs if you ask me, but what do I know, I'm just one of the minion voters?).

The folks in McKinney/Frisco/Allen/Plano/other locales east and north will have to pay a toll just to get to/from D/FW airport. If they're going to toll the roads, then the Wright Amendment (restricting flights to/from Dallas Love Field airport) should be 100% repealed.

That's my soap-box rant - please drive through.